Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 18
"That they have," said a third, an old sparrow with a white poll; "they have something they call a calendar; it's an invention of their own, and everything must be arranged according to it, but it won't do.
Who acts: That, third, hopes, calendar · What happens: have, say, call, be, arrange, accord · To what, where: something, calendar, invention, everything · 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 (That, third, hopes, calendar), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 third | det |
| 9 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sparrow | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sparrow | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sparrow | amod |
| 13 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 third | appos |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 poll | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 poll | det |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 poll | amod |
| 17 | poll | poll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sparrow | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 22 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 call | nsubj |
| 24 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 something | acl:relcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 calendar | det |
| 26 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 call | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 invention | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 invention | nsubj |
| 29 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 invention | cop |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 invention | det |
| 31 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | parataxis |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 own | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 own | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 invention | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 arranged | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 arranged | cc |
| 37 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 40 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 arranged | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 arranged | aux:pass |
| 40 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 invention | parataxis |
| 41 | according | accord | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 arranged | xcomp |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 it | case |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 according | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 do | punct |
| 45 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 do | cc |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 do | nsubj |
| 47 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 do | aux |
| 48 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 do | advmod |
| 49 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 invention | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | That | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a third | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | hopes = hope | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 4 | call in a quote | present | hopes = hope | a calendar | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent calendar=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | calendar | a invention | of hopes's own | tree rules | |||
| 6 | arrange in a quote | must · passive | everything | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | accord in a quote | gerund | calendar | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to it=Goal | |||||
| 8 | not do in a quote | future | calendar | vn act-114-1 «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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