Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 108
Thus saying he handed to the tutor the flute which had been cut from the willow tree by the pool; and then announced in a loud voice that the tutor wished to perform a solo on the flute.
Who acts: artist, pool, tutor · What happens: say, hand, cut, announce, wish, perform · To what, where: flute, tutor, willow tree, loud voice, solo · 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 (artist, pool, tutor), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 handed | advcl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 handed | nsubj |
| 4 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 tutor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tutor | det |
| 7 | tutor | tutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 handed | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flute | det |
| 9 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 handed | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cut | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 cut | aux:pass |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 flute | acl:relcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 16 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | compound |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cut | obl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 pool | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pool | det |
| 20 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cut | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 announced | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 announced | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 announced | advmod |
| 24 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 handed | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 voice | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 voice | det |
| 27 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 voice | amod |
| 28 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 announced | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 wished | obj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tutor | det |
| 31 | tutor | tutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wished | nsubj |
| 32 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 voice | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 perform | mark |
| 34 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 wished | xcomp |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 solo | det |
| 36 | solo | solo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 perform | obj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 flute | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 flute | det |
| 39 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 perform | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | artist not said here | thus property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hand | past | artist | the flute | the tutor | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flute=Theme to tutor=Destination | |||
| 3 | cut | past · perfect · passive | the pool | the flute | the willow tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset subject=Product from tree=Material | |||
| 4 | announce speech: other | past | artist not said here | a loud voice | then | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | wish | past | the tutor | a loud voice | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | perform not said to happen | to-infinitive | the tutor not said here | a solo | the flute | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent solo=Theme |
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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