Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 53
"I," said the sink, "shall stand up for my pea."
Who acts: I · What happens: say, stand up · 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 (I), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sink | det |
| 7 | sink | sink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stand | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 stand | punct |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 stand | aux |
| 11 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 stand | compound:prt |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 pea | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pea | nmod:poss |
| 15 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stand | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stand | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stand up in a quote | shall | for my pea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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