Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 129
Everything was said in whispers, every word was a mystery.
Who acts: word · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Everything, whispers, mystery · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 said | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 whispers | case |
| 5 | whispers | whisper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mystery | punct |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 word | det |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mystery | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mystery | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mystery | det |
| 11 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whispers | appos |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | Everything | whispers | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in whisper=Manner | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | every word | a mystery | 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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