Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 22
"Yes, certainly it is natural," replied those who had brought the presents.
What happens: be, reply, bring · To what, where: those, presents · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 7 natural | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 natural | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 natural | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 natural | expl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 natural | cop |
| 7 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 natural | conj |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 replied | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 those | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 presents | det |
| 16 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 brought | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 natural | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | certainly, natural property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | those | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the presents | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination present=Theme |
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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