Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 63
"After work, it is well to rest," said the paper, "and a very good opportunity to collect one's thoughts.
Who acts: work, paper, one · What happens: be, say, collect, think · To what, where: thoughts · 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 (work, paper, one), 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 rest | punct |
| 2 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 work | case |
| 3 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rest | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 work | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rest | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rest | cop |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 rest | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 rest | mark |
| 9 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rest | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 rest | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 paper | det |
| 14 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 paper | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 paper | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 opportunity | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 opportunity | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 good | advmod |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 opportunity | amod |
| 21 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 paper | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 collect | mark |
| 23 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 opportunity | acl |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 one | case |
| 26 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 collect | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | work | after work | rest, well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the paper and a good opportunity | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | collect in a quote | to-infinitive | the paper and a good opportunity not said here | one's thoughts | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think in a quote | one | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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