Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 43
In an old war song, called "The King of England's Son," it says:
Who acts: song · What happens: call, say · To what, where: old war song · 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 (song), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 song | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 song | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 song | amod |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 song | compound |
| 5 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 says | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 song | acl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 King | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Son | case |
| 12 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 England | case |
| 14 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 King | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 song | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 says | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 says | nsubj |
| 18 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a old war song not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | song | a old war song | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in song=Manner |
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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