Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 188
"The law is there for people of high rank, too," said Holberg.
Who acts: law, people · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (law, people), 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 | _ | 7 people | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 law | det |
| 3 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 people | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 people | cop |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 said | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rank | case |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rank | amod |
| 10 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 people | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 people | punct |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 people | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 people | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 people | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Holberg | Holberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the law | for people; of high rank | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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