Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 79
"They did not like to be knighted, the good old people," she said; "their motto was 'everything in the right place,' and it would not be right, they thought, to purchase a title for money.
Who acts: families, lady, motto · What happens: not like, knight, say, be, not be, think · To what, where: good old people, everything, right place, title · 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 (families, lady, motto), 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 like | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 knighted | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 knighted | aux:pass |
| 8 | knighted | knight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 like | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 people | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 knighted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 everything | punct |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 motto | nmod:poss |
| 21 | motto | motto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 everything | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 everything | cop |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 everything | punct |
| 24 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 said | ccomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 place | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 place | det |
| 27 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 place | amod |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 everything | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 everything | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 everything | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 right | cc |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 right | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 right | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 right | advmod |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 right | cop |
| 36 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 thought | punct |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 thought | nsubj |
| 39 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 purchase | punct |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 purchase | mark |
| 42 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 thought | ccomp |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 title | det |
| 44 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 purchase | obj |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 money | case |
| 46 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 purchase | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like in a quote | past · do-support | families = family | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | knight not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | families = family not said here | the good old people | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | families's motto | everything | the right place | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not is in a quote | would | motto | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other in a quote | past | families = family | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | purchase in a quote | to-infinitive | a title | for money | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent title=Theme for money=Asset |
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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