Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 94
"I call it all nothing," said the third; "not in reality any position.
Who acts: I · What happens: call, say · To what, where: journeyman, third · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 call | nsubj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 call | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 nothing | det |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 call | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | 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 third | det |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 reality | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 reality | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 reality | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 reality | case |
| 16 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 position | det |
| 18 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reality | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | present | I | journeyman | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the third | tree rules |
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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