Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 46
"It may have been so," said the crow; "I did not look at it very closely.
Who acts: knapsack, crow · What happens: be, say, not look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knapsack, crow), 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 been | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 been | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 been | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 been | aux |
| 5 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 been | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 been | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 been | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crow | det |
| 11 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 look | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 look | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 look | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 look | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 look | advmod |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 look | obl |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 closely | advmod |
| 21 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 17 look | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | may · perfect | knapsack | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the crow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not look in a quote | past · do-support | the crow = crow | at knapsack; closely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
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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