Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 28
"Christ said: 'In my father's house are many mansions,'" she answered. "
Who acts: Christ, house · What happens: say, be, answer · To what, where: many mansions · 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 (Christ, house), 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 | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 2 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 mansions | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 house | punct |
| 6 | In | in | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 father | case |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mansions | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 mansions | cop |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mansions | amod |
| 13 | mansions | mansion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 answered | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mansions | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 mansions | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 answered | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 answered | nsubj |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Christ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | my father's house | many mansions | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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