Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 15

"The thought arises, perhaps, from the arrogance of men," said the husband. "

Who acts: thought, husband · What happens: arise, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, husband), 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	_	4 arises	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thought	det
3	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arises	nsubj
4	arises	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 perhaps	punct
6	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	4 arises	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 arrogance	punct
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 arrogance	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 arrogance	det
10	arrogance	arrogance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 men	case
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 men	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 men	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arises	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 husband	det
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arises	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 arises	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arise in a quote	present	the thought					perhaps property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the husband					of men	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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