Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 6
The crow nodded his head very gravely, and said, "Perhaps I have--it may be."
Who acts: crow, head · What happens: nod, say, have, be · To what, where: head · 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 (crow, head), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crow | det |
| 2 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nodded | nsubj |
| 3 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nodded | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 gravely | advmod |
| 7 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 3 nodded | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nodded | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 15 have | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 be | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 be | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 be | aux |
| 19 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 have | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nodded | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | the crow | Kay's head | gravely property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the crow not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | the crow = crow | perhaps property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | may | head | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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