Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 19
He talked of my comedies, and I of his science, and I believe we were both equally pleased.
Who acts: lecturer, I, we · What happens: talk, believe, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lecturer, I, we), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 talked | nsubj |
| 2 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 comedies | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 comedies | nmod:poss |
| 5 | comedies | comedy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 talked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 science | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 science | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 science | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 science | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 science | nmod:poss |
| 11 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talked | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 believe | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 believe | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 believe | nsubj |
| 15 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 talked | parataxis |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 pleased | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 pleased | cop |
| 18 | both | both | ADV | _ | 20 pleased | advmod |
| 19 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 20 pleased | advmod |
| 20 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 believe | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | lecturer | of my comedies | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | we | both, equally, pleased property | 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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