Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 40
I have had an immense number of love affairs," said the shirt collar, "no one left me any peace.
Who acts: I, one · What happens: have, say, leave · To what, where: immense number, shirt collar, peace, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | aux |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 number | det |
| 5 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 number | amod |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 affairs | case |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 affairs | compound |
| 9 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 number | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 collar | det |
| 14 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 collar | compound |
| 15 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | nsubj |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 left | iobj |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 peace | det |
| 23 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | I | a immense number of love affairs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the shirt collar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent collar=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | no one | any peace | me | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme peace=Attribute |
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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