Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 89
"Oh, I have that in my pocket," said Jack; "I have so much of it that I can afford to throw some away;" and he poured some of the clay out of his pocket.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: have, say, afford, throw away, pour · To what, where: that, pocket, much, some · 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 (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 | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 have | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pocket | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 9 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obl | ||
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 much | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 afford | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 afford | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 afford | aux |
| 25 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 much | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 throw | mark |
| 27 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 afford | xcomp |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 throw | obj |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 throw | advmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 poured | cc |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 poured | nsubj |
| 34 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 35 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 poured | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 clay | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 clay | det |
| 38 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 some | nmod |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 pocket | case |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 pocket | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 42 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 poured | obl | ||
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Jack | that | my pocket | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | Jack | much of pocket | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 4 | afford in a quote | can | Jack | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | throw away in a quote | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | some | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | |||
| 6 | pour | past | Jack | some | Jack's pocket | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location |
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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