Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 11
And those whose names end with 'sen,'" said she, "can never be anything at all.
Who acts: names, girl · What happens: end, say, not be · To what, where: anything, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (names, girl), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 end | cc |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 names | det |
| 3 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 4 names | nmod:poss |
| 4 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 end | nsubj |
| 5 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sen | case |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sen | punct |
| 8 | sen | sen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ' | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sen | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sen | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 end | conj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 anything | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 she | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 anything | punct |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 anything | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 anything | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 anything | cop |
| 19 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 said | ccomp |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 all | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 anything | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | that names | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | that names not said here | with sen | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with sen=Manner | ||||
| 3 | not is a | can | girl | anything | all | 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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