Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 17
You will have a husband," said the old Chinaman to her, "who I really believe is made of mahogany.
Who acts: You, old Chinaman, I · What happens: have, say, believe, make · To what, where: husband, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, old Chinaman, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 husband | det |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Chinaman | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Chinaman | amod |
| 11 | Chinaman | Chinaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 made | nsubj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 believe | nsubj |
| 18 | really | really | ADV | _ | 19 believe | advmod |
| 19 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 who | acl:relcl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux:pass |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mahogany | case |
| 23 | mahogany | mahogany | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | You | a husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old Chinaman | wife | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | make | present · passive | of mahogany | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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