Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 76
Some one has bored a hole through it, and people have no doubt called it false.
Who acts: people, doubt · What happens: bore, have, call · To what, where: one, face · 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 (people, doubt), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bored | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bored | aux |
| 4 | bored | bore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bored | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hole | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bored | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 doubt | det |
| 14 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | nsubj |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 called | obj |
| 17 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 called | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bore | present · perfect · passive | some one | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer hole=Result | |||||
| 2 | have | present | people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call | past | no doubt | face | false property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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