Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 50
"They think themselves very wise, thought I to myself.
Who acts: elves, Six elves · What happens: think · To what, where: elves, Six elves
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elves, Six elves), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 think | obj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 wise | advmod |
| 6 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 think | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 think | conj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 myself | case |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 thought | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | elves = elf | elves = elf | wise property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | participle | Six elves = elf | Six elves = elf | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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