Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 11
"Yes; but I am made of mahogany," said the top. "
Who acts: top · What happens: make, say · To what, where: top · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (top), 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 made | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 made | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 made | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mahogany | case |
| 9 | mahogany | mahogany | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | 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 top | det |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present · passive | the top = top | of mahogany | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the top | 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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