Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 36
"Buz," said the fly; "there, I'm not going to make a long speech; but I wish to say something about hares.
Who acts: Buz · What happens: say, not go, make, wish · To what, where: fly, long speech, something · 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 (Buz), 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 | _ | 2 Buz | punct |
| 2 | Buz | Buz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Buz | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Buz | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fly | det |
| 7 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 there | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 there | punct |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 13 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 going | advmod |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 going | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 speech | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 speech | amod |
| 20 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 wish | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 wish | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 wish | nsubj |
| 24 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 say | mark |
| 26 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wish | xcomp |
| 27 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 say | obj |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 hares | case |
| 29 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 something | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Buz | the fly | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not go in a quote | present · progressive | Buz | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | Buz not said here | a long speech | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product | ||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | present | Buz | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Buz not said here | something | about hares | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=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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