Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 30
Jurgen said nothing, but he thought of a certain maiden of Skjagen, whom he was soon to visit.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: say, think, be · To what, where: nothing · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen), 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 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 said | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 maiden | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 maiden | det |
| 10 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 maiden | amod |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Skjagen | case |
| 13 | Skjagen | Skjagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 maiden | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 visit | punct |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 visit | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 visit | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 visit | cop |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 visit | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 visit | mark |
| 20 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 maiden | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jurgen | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Jurgen | of a certain maiden of Skjagen | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Jurgen | soon, visit property | tree rules |
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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