Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 91
"Aha, it has allies," quoth the Fowl. "
Who acts: end, allies · What happens: have, quoth · To what, where: allies, Fowl
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 (end, allies), 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 | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 2 | Aha | aha | INTJ | _ | 5 has | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Aha | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | allies | ally | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 has | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
| 9 | quoth | quoth | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 allies | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fowl | det |
| 11 | Fowl | Fowl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 quoth | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | end | allies | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ally=Patient | ||||
| 2 | quoth | infinitive | allies not said here | the Fowl | 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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