Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 3
"There will not be a dry thread left on the poor people who are out in this weather," he said.
Who acts: dry thread, poor people, thread · What happens: not be, leave, be, say · To what, where: dry thread, weather · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Saucy Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dry thread, poor people, thread), 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 | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 be | expl |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 be | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thread | det |
| 7 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thread | amod |
| 8 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 be | nsubj |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 thread | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 left | obl:agent |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 out | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 out | cop |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 people | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 weather | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 weather | det |
| 19 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be in a quote | future | a dry thread | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | participle | a dry thread not said here | in this weather result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in weather=Result | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the poor people | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | thread | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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