Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 136
"Those two also were speaking of the jewel," said the Toad to herself. "
Who acts: Those, Toad · What happens: speak, say · To what, where: Aesop · 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 (Those, Toad), 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 | _ | 6 speaking | punct |
| 2 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 speaking | nsubj |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Those | appos |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 speaking | advmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 speaking | aux |
| 6 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 jewel | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 jewel | det |
| 9 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speaking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 speaking | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 speaking | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Toad | det |
| 14 | Toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 herself | case |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 said | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other in a quote | past · progressive | Those | of the jewel | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Toad | Aesop | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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