Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, How It Was Prepared, sentence 1
"I did not travel," said the third mouse; "I stayed in this country: that was the right way.
Who acts: third mouse, that · What happens: not travel, say, stay, be · To what, where: country, right way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, How It Was Prepared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third mouse, that), 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 | _ | 5 travel | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 travel | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 travel | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 travel | advmod |
| 5 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 travel | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 travel | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mouse | det |
| 10 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 mouse | amod |
| 11 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 stayed | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 stayed | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 stayed | nsubj |
| 15 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 country | det |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stayed | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 way | punct |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 way | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 way | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 23 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 way | amod |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stayed | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not travel in a quote | past · do-support | the third mouse = mouse | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the third mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stay in a quote | past | the third mouse = mouse | this country | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | that | the right way | 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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