Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 156
People always said he had a good head-piece.
Who acts: People, widow · What happens: say, have · To what, where: good head piece · 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 (People, widow), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 piece | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 piece | amod |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 piece | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 head | punct |
| 10 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | People | always property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | past | widow | a good head piece | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=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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