Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 77
"Wicked Matz has become mad again!" they said amongst themselves.
Who acts: Wicked Matz, criminals · What happens: become, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wicked Matz, criminals), 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 become | punct |
| 2 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Matz | amod |
| 3 | Matz | Matz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 become | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 become | aux |
| 5 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 become | xcomp |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 mad | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 mad | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 become | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 13 themselves | case |
| 13 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become in a quote | present · perfect | Wicked Matz | mad property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | criminals = criminal | amongst criminals = criminal | 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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