Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 9
"Now we shall soon be opened," said one,--just what they all wanted.
Who acts: peas · What happens: open, say, want · To what, where: we, one · 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 (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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 opened | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 opened | aux |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 opened | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 opened | aux:pass |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 opened | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 opened | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 what | advmod |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wanted | nsubj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 wanted | advmod |
| 18 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open in a quote | shall · passive | we | now | soon property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | want | past | peas = pea | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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