Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 45
"Most certainly I shall," replied Jack the Dullard; and again the brothers laughed and rode on, and thus they got far in advance of him; but--
Who acts: Most, brothers, Jack · What happens: reply, laugh, ride on, get, advance · To what, where: Jack, advance
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 (Most, brothers, 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 Most | punct |
| 2 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 shall | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 shall | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 Most | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Most | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Most | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Dullard | det |
| 11 | Dullard | Dullard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Jack | flat |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 laughed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laughed | cc |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 laughed | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 brothers | det |
| 16 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 laughed | nsubj |
| 17 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rode | cc |
| 19 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 laughed | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 rode | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 got | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 got | cc |
| 23 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 25 got | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 got | nsubj |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 laughed | conj |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 got | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 advance | case |
| 28 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 got | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 advance | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 but | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 replied | cc |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 but | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Most | Jack | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jack=Topic | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | the brothers | again | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ride on | past | the brothers not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get | past | brothers = brother | advance of Jack | far, thus property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | advance | Jack | nom advance «event intransitive»: of=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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