Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 21
"Father, dear," said Jack, "I must have a horse too.
Who acts: Father, Jack · What happens: say, have · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, Jack), 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 | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Father | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 have | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 have | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | must | Jack | a horse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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