Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 104
"Are you an artist?" said a cavalier, the son of his father; "you play on the flute, you have made it yourself; it is genius that rules--the place of honour is due to you."
Who acts: you, artist, cavalier, that · What happens: be, say, play, make, rule · To what, where: artist, cavalier, flute, genius, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, artist, cavalier, that), 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 artist | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 artist | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 artist | nsubj |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 artist | det |
| 5 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 artist | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 artist | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cavalier | det |
| 10 | cavalier | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 son | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cavalier | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 father | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 play | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 play | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 play | nsubj |
| 20 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 flute | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 flute | det |
| 23 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 play | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 made | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 made | aux |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 play | advcl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 made | obj |
| 29 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 made | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 genius | punct |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 genius | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 genius | cop |
| 33 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | parataxis |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 rules | nsubj |
| 35 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 genius | conj |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 place | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 place | det |
| 38 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 genius | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 honour | case |
| 40 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 place | nmod |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 due | cop |
| 42 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 8 said | ccomp |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 you | case |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 due | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 due | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 due | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | a artist | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | a artist | a cavalier | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | play in a quote | present | you | the flute | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | present · perfect | you | cavalier | yourself obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | cavalier | genius and rules and the place of honour | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | rule in a quote | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | you | due 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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