Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 33
"Good morning," said the soldier, touching his cap, for he had never seen such a dog in his life.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: say, touch, not see · To what, where: cap, dog, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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 | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soldier | det |
| 8 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 touching | punct |
| 10 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cap | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 touching | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seen | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 seen | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seen | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 seen | advmod |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | conj |
| 19 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 dog | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dog | det |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seen | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 life | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 life | nmod:poss |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seen | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | touch | gerund | the soldier not said here | soldier's cap | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cap=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | not see | past · perfect | soldier | such dog | soldier's life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus |
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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