Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 30
But everybody said it was a great piece of good fortune for the young fellow.
Who acts: everybody, friend · What happens: say, be · To what, where: great piece · 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 (everybody, friend), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 piece | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 piece | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 piece | amod |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fortune | case |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fortune | amod |
| 11 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 fellow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fellow | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fellow | amod |
| 15 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | everybody | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | friend | a great piece | of good fortune; for the young fellow | 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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