Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 56
"This is certainly the wisest plan," said the written paper; "I really did not think of that.
Who acts: This, written paper · What happens: be, say, write, not think · To what, where: wisest plan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, written paper), 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 | _ | 7 plan | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 plan | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 plan | cop |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 plan | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plan | det |
| 6 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 plan | amod |
| 7 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 plan | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 plan | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 paper | det |
| 12 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 paper | amod |
| 13 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 think | nsubj |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 20 think | advmod |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 think | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 think | advmod |
| 20 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 that | case |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 think | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | the wisest plan | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the written paper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not think speech: other in a quote | past · do-support | the written paper = paper | of that | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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