Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 70
"These also are the servants of the Lord God," the old clergyman had said.
Who acts: These · What happens: be, say · To what, where: servants, old clergyman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These), 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 | _ | 6 servants | punct |
| 2 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 servants | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 servants | advmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 servants | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 servants | det |
| 6 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 said | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 God | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 God | det |
| 9 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 God | compound |
| 10 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 servants | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 clergyman | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 clergyman | amod |
| 15 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | aux |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | These | the servants | of the Lord God | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the old clergyman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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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