Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 95
"Oh, those are the gentlemen, are they?" said Jack; "then I will give the best I have to the head clerk."
Who acts: clerks, Jack · What happens: be, say, give, have · To what, where: gentlemen, best · 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 (clerks, 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 are | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 are | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 gentlemen | det |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gentlemen | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gentlemen | det |
| 7 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 9 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 are | nsubj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 are | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 are | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 give | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 give | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 give | aux |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 best | det |
| 22 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 give | obj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 best | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 clerk | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 clerk | det |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 clerk | compound |
| 28 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that gentlemen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | clerks = clerk | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | future | Jack | the best | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme | |||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | Jack | to the head clerk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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