Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 4
The turnkey was speaking of his prisoners, especially of one who had uttered thoughtless words.
Who acts: turnkey · What happens: speak, utter · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turnkey), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 turnkey | det |
| 2 | turnkey | turnkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speaking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speaking | aux |
| 4 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 prisoners | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 prisoners | nmod:poss |
| 7 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 speaking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 uttered | punct |
| 9 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 11 one | advmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 uttered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 uttered | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 uttered | aux |
| 14 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 speaking | conj |
| 15 | thoughtless | thoughtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 words | amod |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 uttered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | the turnkey | of turnkey's prisoners | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past · perfect · passive | one | 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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