Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 155
"Good," said he; "then I shall choose an air balloon; my father knows how they are to be made and guided.
Who acts: conveyance, father · What happens: say, choose, know, make, guide · To what, where: air balloon, balloons · 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 (conveyance, father), 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 | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 choose | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 choose | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 choose | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 choose | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 choose | aux |
| 12 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 balloon | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 balloon | compound |
| 15 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 choose | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 knows | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knows | nsubj |
| 19 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 made | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | aux:pass |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 made | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 made | aux:pass |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 knows | ccomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 guided | cc |
| 27 | guided | guide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 made | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | conveyance | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | choose in a quote | shall | conveyance | a air balloon | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balloon=Theme | |||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | my father | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | present · passive | balloons = balloon | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 5 | guide in a quote | participle | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: 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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