Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 128
"Yes, if we could find the jewel in its head," said the poet, "I too should be for cutting it open.'
Who acts: we, poet · What happens: find, say, be · To what, where: jewel, head · 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 (we, poet), 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 find | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 find | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | aux |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 jewel | det |
| 9 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 jewel | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 poet | det |
| 17 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cutting | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 cutting | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 should | nsubj |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 should | advmod |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 cutting | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 cutting | cop |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 cutting | mark |
| 25 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 said | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 cutting | obj |
| 27 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cutting | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | could | we | the jewel | two's head | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the poet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | should | the poet not said here | cut, open property | 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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