Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 23
"Everything has been written down," said he. "
Who acts: Easter · What happens: write down, say · To what, where: Everything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Easter), 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 written | punct |
| 2 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 written | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 written | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 written | aux:pass |
| 5 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 written | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 written | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 written | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Everything | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Easter | 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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