Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 53
"Yes, certainly it is," said Jack the Dullard; "and clay of the finest sort.
Who acts: ditch, Jack · What happens: be, say · 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 (ditch, 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 is | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 is | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 is | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Dullard | det |
| 12 | Dullard | Dullard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Jack | flat |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 clay | cc |
| 16 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sort | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sort | det |
| 19 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 sort | amod |
| 20 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 clay | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | ditch | certainly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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