Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 114
"He's not out of the cellar," said the General; "he's quite a distinguished person.
Who acts: General, cellar · What happens: not be, say, be · To what, where: cellar, distinguished person · 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 (General, cellar), 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 | _ | 8 cellar | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cellar | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cellar | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 cellar | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 cellar | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cellar | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cellar | det |
| 8 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cellar | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cellar | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 General | det |
| 13 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 person | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 person | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 person | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 person | cop |
| 18 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 person | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 person | det |
| 20 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 person | amod |
| 21 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | General | the cellar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the cellar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | General | quite distinguished person | 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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