Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 84
"'Now then,' they thought, 'every one will see that we are the first.
Who acts: matches, one, we · What happens: think, see, be · 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 (matches, one, we), 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 | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 3 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 thought | advmod |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 thought | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thought | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 first | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 first | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 first | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 first | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 see | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | matches = match | now; then | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | future | every one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | we | first property | tree rules |
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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