Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 84
"They must have been excellent, sensible people," said the pastor's son.
Who acts: mistress, excellent sensible people · What happens: be, say · To what, where: excellent sensible people, son · 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 (mistress, excellent sensible people), 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 | _ | 9 people | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 people | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 people | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 people | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 people | cop |
| 6 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 excellent | punct |
| 8 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 people | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 people | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pastor | det |
| 14 | pastor | pastor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 pastor | case |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | must · perfect | mistress | excellent sensible people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | excellent sensible people | the pastor's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent son=Topic |
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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