Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 4
"One must only do the right thing," he said; "yes, the right--the correct thing.
Who acts: One, man · What happens: do, say · To what, where: right thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, man), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thing | amod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 right | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 right | punct |
| 15 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 18 right | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 yes | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 right | det |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 thing | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thing | det |
| 21 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 thing | amod |
| 22 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 right | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | must | One | the right thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | 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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