Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 126
He spoke words of sheer lunacy, so that the General could hardly believe his own ears.
Who acts: man, General · What happens: speak, believe, word · To what, where: words, own ears, sheer lunacy · 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 (man, General), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spoke | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lunacy | case |
| 5 | sheer | sheer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lunacy | amod |
| 6 | lunacy | lunacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 words | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 believe | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 so | fixed |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 General | det |
| 11 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 believe | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 believe | aux |
| 13 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 14 believe | advmod |
| 14 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spoke | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ears | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ears | amod |
| 17 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 believe | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | man | words of sheer lunacy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | could | the General | man's own ears | hardly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | word | sheer lunacy | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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