Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 44
"If one could only make such a journey as that!" said the Toad. "
Who acts: one, Toad · What happens: make, say · To what, where: journey · 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 (one, 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 make | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 3 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 make | advmod |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 journey | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 journey | det |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 make | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Toad | det |
| 16 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | could | one | such journey | as that | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Toad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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