Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 22
"What is to happen will happen," said he to himself.
Who acts: boy · What happens: be, happen, say · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 happen | mark |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 happen | aux |
| 7 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | happen property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | happen in a quote | future | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | boy | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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