Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 11
"Now he'll get a salary," said the man.
Who acts: Professor, man · What happens: get, say · To what, where: salary · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Professor, man), 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 | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 get | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 salary | det |
| 7 | salary | salary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | future | Professor | a salary | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer salary=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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