Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 84
"My wife sings the language, but she does not speak it," observed the General.
Who acts: wife · What happens: sing, not speak, observe · To what, where: language, General · 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 (wife), 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 | _ | 4 sings | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sings | nsubj |
| 4 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 language | det |
| 6 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sings | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 speak | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 speak | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 speak | nsubj |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 speak | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 speak | advmod |
| 12 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sings | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 speak | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 observed | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 observed | punct |
| 16 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sings | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 General | det |
| 18 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 observed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | present | My wife | the language | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not speak speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | wife | language | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | observe | past | the General | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent general=Topic |
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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