Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 70
"I shall ride forth into the wide world," said the eldest brother. "
Who acts: eldest brother · What happens: ride, say · To what, where: wide world · 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 (eldest brother), 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 ride | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ride | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ride | aux |
| 4 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 ride | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 world | amod |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ride | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ride | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ride | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brother | det |
| 14 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 brother | amod |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride in a quote | shall | the eldest brother = brother | the wide world | forth property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into world=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the eldest brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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