Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 61
"Oh, yes, the ghost of the last one is there still," said he.
Who acts: ghost · What happens: be, say, ghost · To what, where: last one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ghost), 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 | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 12 is | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 12 is | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ghost | det |
| 7 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 is | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ghost | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 is | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | the ghost of the last one | there | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | ghost | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ghost in a quote | the last one | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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