Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 18
"It is a beautiful bird," said the traveller, "and these large white wings are worth a great deal of money.
Who acts: swan, beautiful bird, these, large white wings · What happens: be, say, wing, deal · To what, where: beautiful bird, traveller, money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swan, beautiful bird, these, large white wings), 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 bird | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bird | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bird | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bird | amod |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bird | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bird | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 traveller | det |
| 11 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 traveller | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 traveller | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 worth | cc |
| 15 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 wings | nsubj |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wings | amod |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wings | amod |
| 18 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 worth | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 worth | cop |
| 20 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 deal | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 deal | amod |
| 23 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 worth | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 money | case |
| 25 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 deal | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | swan | a beautiful bird | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a beautiful bird | the traveller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent traveller=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wing in a quote | these | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | large white wings | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | deal in a quote | money | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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