Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 25
"I know very well where she is," sighed the top; "she is in the swallow's nest, and has married the swallow."
Who acts: top, bird · What happens: know, be, sigh, marry · To what, where: top, nest, swallow · 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, bird), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 know | advmod |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 is | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 is | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sighed | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sighed | punct |
| 11 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 top | det |
| 13 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sighed | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 nest | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 nest | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 nest | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 nest | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 nest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 swallow | det |
| 20 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 nest | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 swallow | case |
| 22 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sighed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 married | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 married | cc |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 married | aux |
| 26 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sighed | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 swallow | det |
| 28 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 married | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | top | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | bird | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sigh | past | the top | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | bird | the swallow's nest | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | marry in a quote | present · perfect | the swallow | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swallow=Patient |
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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