Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 85
"They are only dreams," said the crow, "they are coming to fetch the thoughts of the great people out hunting."
Who acts: gentlemen, dreams · What happens: be, say, come, fetch out, hunt, think · To what, where: dreams, crow, thoughts, great people · 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 (gentlemen, dreams), 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 dreams | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dreams | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dreams | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 dreams | advmod |
| 5 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreams | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreams | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 crow | det |
| 10 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 coming | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 coming | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 coming | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 coming | aux |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fetch | mark |
| 17 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 coming | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thoughts | det |
| 19 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fetch | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 people | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 people | amod |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thoughts | nmod |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 fetch | compound:prt |
| 25 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 fetch | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 coming | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | gentlemen = gentleman | dreams | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | dreams | the crow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · progressive | gentlemen = gentleman | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fetch out in a quote | to-infinitive | gentlemen = gentleman not said here | the thoughts of the great people | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hunt in a quote | gerund | gentlemen = gentleman not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | think in a quote | the great people | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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