Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 23
"Yes, they said a good many things of the kind, according to their age and their reason.
Who acts: friends · What happens: say, accord · To what, where: good many things · 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 (friends), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 things | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obj |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 kind | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kind | det |
| 12 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kind | punct |
| 14 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 age | case |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 according | fixed |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 age | nmod:poss |
| 17 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kind | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 reason | cc |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 reason | nmod:poss |
| 20 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 age | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | friends = friend | a good many things | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | accord in a quote | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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