Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 88
"I see I must make a regular attack on these things," said he; and he accordingly did not spare them.
Who acts: wreath · What happens: see, make, say, not spare · To what, where: regular attack, things · 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 (wreath), 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 | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 make | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 attack | det |
| 8 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 attack | amod |
| 9 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 things | det |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 attack | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 spare | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 spare | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spare | nsubj |
| 20 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 23 spare | advmod |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 spare | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 spare | advmod |
| 23 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spare | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | wreath | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | must | wreath | a regular attack | this things | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Product | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | wreath | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not spare | past · do-support | wreath | things = thing | accordingly property | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Asset |
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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