Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 8
Yes," he said, "it is all very well to say 'pack up,'" but he had nothing left to pack up, therefore he seated himself in the trunk.
Who acts: merchant, trunk · What happens: say, be, pack up, have, leave, seat · To what, where: nothing, merchant, trunk · 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 (merchant, trunk), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 well | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 well | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 well | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 well | cop |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 well | advmod |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 well | advmod |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 say | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 pack | punct |
| 16 | pack | pack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 say | ccomp |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 pack | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ' | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 pack | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 pack | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 had | obj |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 nothing | acl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 pack | mark |
| 27 | pack | pack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 left | advcl |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 pack | compound:prt |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 seated | punct |
| 30 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 32 seated | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 seated | nsubj |
| 32 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 seated | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 trunk | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 trunk | det |
| 36 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seated | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | merchant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | trunk | all, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | pack up | infinitive | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | have in a quote | past | merchant | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 6 | leave in a quote | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | pack up in a quote | to-infinitive | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | seat in a quote | past | merchant | merchant | the trunk | therefore property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value in trunk=Location |
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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