Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 99

"And if it is the other he will not come," said the General, and approached the black domino, who was just speaking with the King.

Who acts: it, Count, General, black domino · What happens: be, not come, say, approach, speak · To what, where: black domino · 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 (it, Count, General, black domino), 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	_	14 said	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 other	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 other	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 other	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 other	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	advcl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 other	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 other	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 other	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 General	det
16	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 approached	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 approached	cc
19	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 domino	det
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 domino	amod
22	domino	domino	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 approached	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 speaking	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 speaking	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 speaking	aux
26	just	just	ADV	_	27 speaking	advmod
27	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 domino	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 King	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 King	det
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 speaking	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	it		other property	tree rules
2	not come in a quote	future	Count			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the General			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	approach	past	the General not said here	the black domino		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent domino=Theme
5	speak speech: other	past · progressive	the black domino		with the King	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with king=Co-Agent

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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