Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 49
"Well, they belong to the same master," retorted the yard-dog. "
Who acts: drops, yard dog · What happens: belong, retort · 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 (drops, yard dog), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 belong | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 belong | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 belong | nsubj |
| 5 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 retorted | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 master | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 master | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 master | amod |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 belong | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 belong | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 retorted | punct |
| 12 | retorted | retort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 14 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dog | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 yard | punct |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 retorted | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 retorted | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 retorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong in a quote | present | drops = drop | to the same master | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | retort speech: other | past | the yard dog | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=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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