Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 64
[1] "I want a voice," or, "I have no voice."
Who acts: newspaper · What happens: want, have · To what, where: voice
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 (newspaper), 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 | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 want | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 want | nsubj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 want | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 or | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 want | conj |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 voice | det |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | newspaper | a voice | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot voice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | newspaper | no voice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient |
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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