Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 194
The MASTER, who spoke that parable, spoke the truth!
Who acts: MASTER · What happens: speak · To what, where: parable, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MASTER), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 MASTER | det |
| 2 | MASTER | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 MASTER | acl:relcl |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 parable | det |
| 7 | parable | parable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 MASTER | punct |
| 9 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 truth | det |
| 11 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spoke | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the MASTER | that parable | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the MASTER | the truth | tree rules |
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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