Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 26
But yes, I was the one they called 'false, and good for nothing.'
Who acts: I, people · What happens: be, call · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 one | cc |
| 2 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 one | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 false | punct |
| 11 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 called | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 good | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 good | cc |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 nothing | case |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 good | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | I | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | past | people | the one not said here | false property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | |||
| 3 | be | I not said here | for nothing | 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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