Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 11
"I think," said, the porter's wife, "the grander people are, the fewer airs do they give themselves.
Who acts: I, grander people, fewer airs, airs · What happens: think, say, be, do, give · To what, where: airs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, grander people, fewer airs, airs), 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 | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wife | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 porter | det |
| 9 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 porter | case |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 are | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 are | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 15 | grander | grand | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 are | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 airs | det |
| 20 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 airs | amod |
| 21 | airs | air | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 do | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 are | conj |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 give | nsubj |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 do | advcl:relcl |
| 25 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 give | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | 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 focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | does in a quote | present | the grander people | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | the fewer airs | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | infinitive | airs = air | airs = air | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
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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