Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 35
"Now I am in a nice place," said he; "my gilding will soon be washed off here.
Who acts: nice place · What happens: be, say, wash off · To what, where: nice place, gilding · 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 (nice place), 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 | _ | 8 place | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 place | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 place | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 7 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 place | amod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 place | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 place | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 washed | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 washed | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gilding | nmod:poss |
| 16 | gilding | gilding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 washed | aux |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 washed | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 washed | aux:pass |
| 20 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 washed | compound:prt |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 washed | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | a nice place = place | a nice place | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a nice place | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wash off in a quote | future · passive | my gilding | here | soon property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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