Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 180
That is a house to be looked at, and not to be touched," said the Wind. "
Who acts: That, Wind · What happens: be, look, not touch, say · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Wind), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 house | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 house | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 looked | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 looked | aux:pass |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 house | acl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 looked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 touched | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 touched | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 touched | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 touched | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 touched | aux:pass |
| 14 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 house | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 house | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 house | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Wind | det |
| 19 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive · passive | the Wind not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute» | |||||
| 3 | not touch | to-infinitive · passive | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Wind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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