Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 49

"Is that a hill?" said the youngest of the boys, pointing to the elf hill, "we should call it a hole in Norway."

Who acts: hill, we · What happens: be, point, call · To what, where: elf hill, hill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hill, we), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 said	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hill	det
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hill	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hill	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youngest	det
10	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 said	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 boys	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boys	det
13	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 youngest	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pointing	punct
15	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 hill	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hill	det
18	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hill	compound
19	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pointing	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 call	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 call	punct
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 call	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 call	aux
24	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 pointing	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 call	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hole	det
27	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 call	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 Norway	case
29	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 hole	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	present	a hill			say property	tree rules
2	point	gerund	a hill not said here		the elf hill		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hill=Recipient
3	call in a quote	should	we	hill			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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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