Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 42
It is our genealogical tree," said the old people to their children, "and therefore it must be honoured."
Who acts: meantime · What happens: be, say, honour · To what, where: genealogical tree, old people, children, meantime · 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 (meantime), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tree | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tree | cop |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tree | nmod:poss |
| 4 | genealogical | genealogical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tree | amod |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tree | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 children | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 children | nmod:poss |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 honoured | cc |
| 18 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 22 honoured | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 honoured | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 honoured | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 honoured | aux:pass |
| 22 | honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tree | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | meantime | our genealogical tree | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old people | people's children | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Topic to child=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | honour | must · passive | meantime | therefore 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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