Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 10
That face said, "It is nothing, it will all end better than people think."
Who acts: face, nothing, people · What happens: say, be, end, think · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, nothing, people), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 face | det |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 end | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 nothing | punct |
| 6 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 nothing | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 nothing | cop |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 end | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nothing | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 end | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 end | aux |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 end | advmod |
| 13 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 end | xcomp |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 think | mark |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 think | nsubj |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 better | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 end | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | that face | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | face | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | end in a quote | future | nothing | all, good property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | present | people | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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