Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 105
He said nothing and made no complaint, which is a sure sign.
Who acts: Man, complaint · What happens: say, make, be · To what, where: nothing, complaint, sure sign · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man, complaint), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 said | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 made | cc |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 complaint | det |
| 7 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sign | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sign | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sign | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sign | det |
| 12 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sign | amod |
| 13 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 complaint | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Man | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Man not said here | no complaint and a sure sign | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset complaint=Product | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | no complaint and a sure sign | a sure sign | 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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