Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 153
"That was a powerful speech," thought the little Toad. "
Who acts: That, powerful speech · What happens: be, think · To what, where: powerful speech, little Toad · 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, powerful speech), 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 speech | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 speech | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 speech | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 speech | det |
| 5 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 speech | amod |
| 6 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 speech | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 speech | punct |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Toad | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Toad | amod |
| 12 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Toad | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Toad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | That | a powerful speech | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | a powerful speech | the little Toad | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot toad=Theme |
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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