Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 51
"The Psyche must be executed in marble," said the wealthy patrician.
Who acts: wealthy patrician · What happens: execute, say · To what, where: Psyche, marble · 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 (wealthy patrician), 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 | _ | 6 executed | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Psyche | det |
| 3 | Psyche | Psyche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 executed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 executed | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 executed | aux:pass |
| 6 | executed | execute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 marble | case |
| 8 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 executed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 executed | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 executed | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 patrician | det |
| 13 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 patrician | amod |
| 14 | patrician | patrician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | execute in a quote | must · passive | the Psyche | marble | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the wealthy patrician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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