Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 25
These people must at all events be wrong, or they could not mean me.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, not mean · To what, where: events, me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wrong | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 wrong | aux |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 events | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 events | det |
| 6 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wrong | obl |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wrong | cop |
| 8 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mean | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 mean | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 mean | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 mean | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 mean | advmod |
| 14 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wrong | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 mean | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wrong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | this people | all events | wrong property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not mean | could | people | me | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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