Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 96
"I think the Seer has been badly served," said the second brother, "but the Hearer may be more successful."
Who acts: I, second brother, Hearer · What happens: think, serve, say, be · To what, where: Seer · 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 (I, second brother, Hearer), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Seer | det |
| 5 | Seer | seer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 served | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 served | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 served | aux:pass |
| 8 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 served | advmod |
| 9 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 think | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brother | det |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 brother | amod |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 successful | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Hearer | det |
| 20 | Hearer | Hearer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 successful | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 successful | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 successful | cop |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 successful | advmod |
| 24 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 think | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | serve in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the Seer | badly property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the second brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | may | the Hearer | successful property | tree rules |
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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