Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 20
And the roses and the hymn-book told the real truth.
Who acts: roses · What happens: tell · To what, where: real truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roses | det |
| 3 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 told | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 book | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 book | det |
| 6 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 book | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 hymn | punct |
| 8 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roses | conj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 truth | det |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 truth | amod |
| 12 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the roses and the hymn book | the real truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
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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