Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 29
"I should really have voted for myself," said the mule, "if I had not been one of the judges on the committee.
Who acts: mule · What happens: vote, say, not be · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mule), 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 voted | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 voted | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 voted | aux |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 voted | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 voted | aux |
| 6 | voted | vote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 myself | case |
| 8 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 voted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 voted | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 voted | 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 | 13 mule | det |
| 13 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mule | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 one | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 one | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 one | advmod |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 one | cop |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 said | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 judges | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 judges | det |
| 24 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 committee | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 committee | det |
| 27 | committee | committee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 judges | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote in a quote | should · perfect | the mule = mule | for the mule = mule | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for myself=Goal | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the mule | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect | the mule = mule | one | of the judges on the committee | 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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