Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 121
The next day, nobody spoke a word about what had taken place; thus originated the phrase, "to pocket the flute."
Who acts: nobody, flute · What happens: speak, take, originate, pocket · To what, where: word, place, phrase · 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 (nobody, flute), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spoke | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 5 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 spoke | nsubj |
| 6 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spoke | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 word | nmod |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 originated | punct |
| 15 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 originated | advmod |
| 16 | originated | originate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spoke | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 phrase | det |
| 18 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 originated | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pocket | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 pocket | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 pocket | mark |
| 22 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 originated | conj | ||
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 flute | det |
| 24 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pocket | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spoke | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | nobody | a word | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||||
| 3 | originate | past | nobody not said here | the phrase | thus property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phrase=Patient | |||
| 4 | pocket in a quote | the flute | 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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