Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 77
The old clergyman spoke a few words for honorable remembrance, and a painter made a drawing, as a lasting record of the tree.
Who acts: old clergyman, painter · What happens: speak, make, record · To what, where: few words, drawing, tree · 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 (old clergyman, painter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 clergyman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clergyman | amod |
| 3 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 words | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spoke | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 remembrance | case |
| 9 | honorable | honorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 remembrance | amod |
| 10 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 words | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 painter | det |
| 14 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 drawing | det |
| 17 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 record | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 record | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 record | det |
| 21 | lasting | lasting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 record | amod |
| 22 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tree | det |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 record | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the old clergyman | a few words | for honorable remembrance | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past | a painter | a drawing | as a lasting record of the tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset drawing=Product | |||
| 3 | record | the tree | nom record «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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