Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 1
"Yes, yes, it is Joanna," said his master; and he drew forth a printed bill, and pointed to her name, which was there in full.
Who acts: it, Joanna, name, her · What happens: be, say, draw, print, point, name · To what, where: Joanna, master, printed bill, name, full · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Joanna, name, her), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 11 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 Joanna | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Joanna | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Joanna | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Joanna | cop |
| 8 | Joanna | Joanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Joanna | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Joanna | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 master | nmod:poss |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 drew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drew | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 drew | nsubj |
| 17 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 drew | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bill | det |
| 20 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 bill | amod | |
| 21 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drew | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pointed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pointed | cc |
| 24 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drew | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 name | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 name | nmod:poss |
| 27 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pointed | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 there | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 there | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 there | cop |
| 31 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 name | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 full | case |
| 33 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 there | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | it | Joanna | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Joanna | Joanna's master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Topic | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | Joanna | a printed bill | forth property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Theme | |||
| 4 | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||||
| 5 | point | past | Joanna not said here | her name | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to name=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is | past | her name | full | there property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | name | her = she | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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