Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 218
"For each of the wise men from the East," said Holberg.
Who acts: Holberg · What happens: 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 (Holberg), 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 each | case |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 said | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 men | det |
| 6 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 each | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 East | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 East | det |
| 10 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 men | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 each | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 each | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Holberg | Holberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Holberg | for each | 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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