Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 228
He speaks in the Parliament, not for the benefit of the country, but only for himself.
Who acts: town · What happens: speak · To what, where: Parliament · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 speaks | nsubj |
| 2 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Parliament | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Parliament | det |
| 5 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 speaks | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 benefit | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 benefit | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 benefit | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 benefit | det |
| 10 | benefit | benefit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 speaks | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 country | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 country | det |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 benefit | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 himself | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 himself | cc |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 himself | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 speaks | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 speaks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | town | the Parliament | for the benefit of the country; for town | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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