Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 4
"No," said the fence-rail, who had been a witness at the distribution of prizes; "there should be some consideration for industry and perseverance.
Who acts: fence rail · What happens: say, be, distribute · To what, where: witness, distribution, consideration, prizes · 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 (fence rail), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rail | det |
| 7 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rail | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 fence | punct |
| 9 | rail | rail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 witness | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 witness | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 witness | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 witness | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 witness | det |
| 15 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rail | nmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 distribution | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 distribution | det |
| 18 | distribution | distribution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 witness | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 prizes | case |
| 20 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 distribution | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 consideration | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 be | punct |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 be | expl |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 be | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 consideration | cop |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 consideration | det |
| 27 | consideration | consideration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 industry | case |
| 29 | industry | industry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 consideration | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 perseverance | cc |
| 31 | perseverance | perseverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 industry | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the fence rail | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | the fence rail | a witness | the distribution of prizes | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | infinitive | some consideration | for industry and perseverance | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | distribute | prizes | nom distribution «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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