Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 60
"'That is quite true,' said the water-bucket; and he made a spring with joy, and splashed some water on the floor.
Who acts: That, commencement · What happens: be, say, make, splash · To what, where: water bucket, water, floor · 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 (That, commencement), 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 | _ | 6 true | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 true | punct |
| 3 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 true | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 true | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 true | advmod |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 true | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 true | 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 | 13 bucket | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bucket | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 water | punct |
| 13 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 spring | det |
| 19 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 joy | case |
| 21 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spring | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 splashed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 splashed | cc |
| 24 | splashed | splash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | conj |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 splashed | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 floor | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 floor | det |
| 29 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 splashed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the water bucket | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bucket=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | past | commencement | spring | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | splash in a quote | past | commencement not said here | some water | the floor | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme on floor=Destination |
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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