Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 13
"Eighteen dollars a year," said the man. "
Who acts: Eighteen dollars · What happens: say · To what, where: man · 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 (Eighteen dollars), 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 | _ | 3 dollars | punct |
| 2 | Eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 dollars | nummod |
| 3 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dollars | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dollars | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dollars | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Eighteen dollars a year | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=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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