Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 82
"Upward and downward is the course of the world," said he. "
Who acts: course, clerk · 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 (course, clerk), 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 | _ | 4 downward | punct |
| 2 | Upward | upward | ADV | _ | 4 downward | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 downward | cc |
| 4 | downward | downward | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 downward | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 course | det |
| 7 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 downward | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 course | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 downward | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 downward | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the course of the world | downward, upward property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | clerk | 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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