Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 8
"I think I ought to have had some consideration too," said the swallow. "
Who acts: I, swallow · What happens: think, have, say · To what, where: consideration · 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 (I, swallow), 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 | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 5 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | aux |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | aux |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 think | ccomp |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 consideration | det |
| 10 | consideration | consideration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 had | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 swallow | det |
| 16 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | ought · perfect | I | some consideration | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consideration=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the swallow | 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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