Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 13
"That may be," retorted the mother-Toad, "but one of them has a jewel in his head, or else I have the jewel."
Who acts: That, one, I · What happens: be, have · 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 (That, one, I), 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 retorted | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 retorted | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 retorted | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 retorted | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 retorted | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 retorted | punct |
| 7 | retorted | retort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Toad | det |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Toad | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Toad | punct |
| 11 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 retorted | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 retorted | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 retorted | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 has | cc |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 has | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 one | nmod |
| 18 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 retorted | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 jewel | det |
| 20 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 jewel | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 have | cc |
| 26 | else | else | ADV | _ | 28 have | advmod |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 have | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 retorted | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 jewel | det |
| 30 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 retorted | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 retorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: other | may | That | retort property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | one of Frogs | a jewel | Toad's head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Patient | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | I | the jewel | else property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=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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