Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 9
"He is dead and gone," she said to the sparrows.
Who acts: Kay, Gerda · What happens: be, say · To what, where: sparrows · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, Gerda), 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 | _ | 4 dead | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dead | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dead | cop |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gone | cc |
| 6 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dead | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 sparrows | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sparrows | det |
| 13 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Kay | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | Kay not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Gerda | the sparrows | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sparrow=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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