Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 52

If the newspapers, or even the whole world, said of a certain subject, "It is so-and-so;" and a little schoolboy declared he had learned quite differently, they would take his assertion as the only true one, because he belonged to the family.

Who acts: newspapers, subject, little schoolboy, schoolboy, newspaper · What happens: say, be, declare, learn, take, belong · To what, where: assertion · 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 (newspapers, subject, little schoolboy, schoolboy), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 newspapers	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 newspapers	det
3	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 world	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 world	cc
6	even	even	ADV	_	9 world	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 world	amod
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 newspapers	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 newspapers	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 subject	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 subject	det
14	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 subject	amod
15	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 declared	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 so	punct
18	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 so	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 so	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	24 so	advmod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 so	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 so	cc
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	31 declared	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 declared	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 ;	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 declared	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 schoolboy	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 schoolboy	amod
30	schoolboy	schoolboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 declared	nsubj
31	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 learned	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 learned	aux
34	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 declared	xcomp
35	quite	quite	ADV	_	36 differently	advmod
36	differently	differently	ADV	_	34 learned	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 take	punct
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 take	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 take	aux
40	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 declared	parataxis
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 assertion	nmod:poss
42	assertion	assertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 take	obj
43	as	as	ADP	_	47 one	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 one	det
45	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 one	amod
46	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 one	amod
47	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 take	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 belonged	punct
49	because	because	SCONJ	_	51 belonged	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 belonged	nsubj
51	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 take	parataxis
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 family	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 family	det
54	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 belonged	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the newspapers the whole world		of a certain subject	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	subject		so property	tree rules
3	declare speech: other	past	a little schoolboy			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	learn	past · perfect	schoolboy		differently property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take	would	newspaper	schoolboy's assertion	as the only true one	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent assertion=Theme as one=Attribute
6	belong	past	schoolboy		to the family	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
7	assert		schoolboy			nom assertion «communication transitive»: poss=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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