Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 50
"Boys," said the old man, "a hole goes in, and a hill stands out; have you no eyes in your heads?"
Who acts: Boys, hole, hill, you · What happens: say, go in, stand out, have · To what, where: eyes, heads · 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 (Boys, hole, hill, you), 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 Boys | punct |
| 2 | Boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boys | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boys | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 goes | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 goes | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hole | det |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 goes | nsubj |
| 13 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 goes | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stands | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stands | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hill | det |
| 18 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stands | nsubj |
| 19 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 goes | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 stands | compound:prt |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 eyes | det |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 heads | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heads | nmod:poss |
| 28 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Boys | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in in a quote | present | a hole | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand out in a quote | present | a hill | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | you | no eyes | your heads | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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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