Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 8
"I suppose it must be dead, or gone away with many other things," said the man.
Who acts: man, door · What happens: suppose, be, go away, say · 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 (man, door), 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 | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 suppose | nsubj |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dead | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 dead | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dead | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 suppose | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gone | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 gone | cc |
| 10 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 suppose | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 gone | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 things | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 things | amod |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 things | amod |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gone | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose in a quote | present | the man = man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | must | door | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go away in a quote | participle | the man = man not said here | with many other things; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with thing=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the man | 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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