Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 114

"I will try now," said the third brother; "I have a keen nose."

Who acts: third brother, bells · What happens: try, say, have · To what, where: keen nose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third brother, bells), 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	_	4 try	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 try	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 try	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 try	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brother	det
10	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 brother	amod
11	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 try	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 nose	det
17	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nose	amod
18	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	try in a quote	future	the third brother = brother		now	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	the third brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have in a quote	present	the bells on the fool's cap = bell	a keen nose		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient

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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