Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 14
"It might be an Italian or a Spaniard," remarked the clergyman.
Who acts: many, Spaniard · What happens: be, remark · To what, where: clergyman · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, Spaniard), 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 Italian | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Italian | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 Italian | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Italian | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Italian | det |
| 6 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 remarked | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Spaniard | det |
| 9 | Spaniard | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 remarked | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remarked | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 remarked | punct |
| 12 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 Italian | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 clergyman | det |
| 14 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remarked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Italian | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | might | many | italian property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | a Spaniard | the clergyman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent clergyman=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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