Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 12

Tweet, tweet," said one to another; "they call this a new year, but I think it is worse than the last.

Who acts: Tweet, I, path · What happens: say, call, think, be · To what, where: one, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tweet, I, path), 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	Tweet	tweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tweet	punct
3	tweet	tweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tweet	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Tweet	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 said	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 another	case
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 one	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 call	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 call	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 call	nsubj
13	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 call	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 year	det
16	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 year	amod
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 call	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 think	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 think	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 think	nsubj
21	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 call	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 worse	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 worse	cop
24	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 think	ccomp
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 last	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 last	det
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 worse	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Tweet and tweet	one		to another	tree rules
2	call speech: assert	present	Tweet	this	year		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient
3	think speech: other	present	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	path			than the last; bad property	tree rules

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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