Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 7
His rule was despotic: 'It shall be,' he was accustomed to say.
Who acts: rule, castle · What happens: be, accustom, say, rule · To what, where: castle · 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 (rule, castle), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 rule | nmod:poss |
| 2 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 despotic | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 despotic | cop |
| 4 | despotic | despotic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 be | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 be | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 be | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 be | aux |
| 9 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 despotic | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 accustomed | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 accustomed | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 accustomed | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 14 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 despotic | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 say | mark |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 accustomed | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 despotic | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | castle's rule | despotic property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | shall | rule | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | accustom | past · passive | castle | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | rule | castle | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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