Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 66
"'They were only common people after all,' thought the matches.
Who acts: tongs, common people · What happens: be, think · To what, where: common people, matches
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 (tongs, common people), 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 | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 people | punct |
| 3 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 people | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 people | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 people | advmod |
| 6 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 people | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 people | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 people | punct |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 matches | det |
| 14 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thought | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | tongs = tong | common people | after all | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | common people | the matches | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot match=Theme |
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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