Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 31
"This is a wonderful place," said the goblin; "I never expected such a thing.
Who acts: This, wonderful place · What happens: be, say, not expect · To what, where: wonderful place, goblin, thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, wonderful place), 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 place | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 place | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 place | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 5 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 place | amod |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 place | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 place | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 goblin | det |
| 11 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 expected | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 expected | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 expected | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 expected | advmod |
| 16 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 thing | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 thing | det |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 expected | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | a wonderful place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a wonderful place | the goblin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goblin=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not expect in a quote | past | a wonderful place = place | such thing | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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