Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 7
"All the world is turning yellow, I suppose," said they,--and perhaps they were right.
Who acts: world, peas · What happens: turn, suppose, say, be · 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 (world, peas), 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 | _ | 6 turning | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 world | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 world | det |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turning | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 turning | aux |
| 6 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 turning | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 suppose | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 suppose | nsubj |
| 10 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 turning | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 turning | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 turning | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 right | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 right | cc |
| 18 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 21 right | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 right | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 right | cop |
| 21 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn in a quote | present · progressive | all world | yellow property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | suppose in a quote | present | peas = pea | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | peas = pea | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | past | peas = pea | perhaps, right property | tree rules |
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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