Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 105
"Not in my opinion," said the fourth; "I will never follow the lead of others, and only imitate what they have done.
Who acts: opinion, others, my · What happens: say, not follow, imitate, do, opine · To what, where: fourth, lead · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opinion, others, my), 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 opinion | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 opinion | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 opinion | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 5 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 opinion | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 opinion | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fourth | det |
| 10 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 follow | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 follow | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 follow | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 follow | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 follow | advmod |
| 16 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lead | det |
| 18 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 follow | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 others | case |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lead | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 imitate | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 imitate | cc |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 imitate | advmod |
| 24 | imitate | imitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 follow | advcl |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 done | obj |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 done | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 done | aux |
| 28 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 imitate | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my opinion | the fourth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not follow in a quote | future | my opinion = opinion | the lead of others | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lead=Theme | ||||
| 3 | imitate in a quote | present | my opinion = opinion not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present · perfect | others = other | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | opine in a quote | my | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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