Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 72
"It was a good sermon to-day," the man said at last. "
Who acts: hand, man · What happens: be, say · To what, where: good sermon, last · 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 (hand, man), 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 | _ | 6 sermon | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sermon | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sermon | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sermon | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sermon | amod |
| 6 | sermon | sermon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 to | punct |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sermon | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sermon | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | hand | a good sermon | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man | last | 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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