Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 53
"'Yes, of course,' said the matches, 'let us talk about those who are the highest born.'
Who acts: us · What happens: say, let, talk, be, bear · To what, where: matches, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yes | punct |
| 3 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 said | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 course | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 course | case |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Yes | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yes | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yes | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 matches | det |
| 11 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 those | case |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 talk | obl |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 highest | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 highest | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 highest | det |
| 22 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 those | nmod |
| 23 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 highest | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the matches | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | talk in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | about those | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about that=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | high property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bear in a quote | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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