Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 123
"There sits a good specimen of a toad," said the naturalist. "
Who acts: naturalist · What happens: sit, say · To what, where: good specimen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (naturalist), 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 sits | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 sits | expl |
| 3 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 specimen | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 specimen | amod |
| 6 | specimen | specimen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sits | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 toad | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 toad | det |
| 9 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 specimen | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sits | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 naturalist | det |
| 14 | naturalist | naturalist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sits | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit in a quote | present | a good specimen of a toad | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location specimen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the naturalist | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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