Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 100
"Drum-ma-rum! drum-ma-rum! there he is!" the Drum might have said, and his mother might have sung, if she had seen or dreamt it.
Who acts: ma rum, mother · What happens: be, say, sing, see, dreamt · To what, where: drum ma rum, mother, rum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ma rum, mother), 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 rum | punct |
| 2 | Drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ma | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Drum | punct |
| 4 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rum | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 rum | punct |
| 6 | rum | rum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rum | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 rum | punct |
| 8 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rum | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 drum | punct |
| 10 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rum | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 rum | punct |
| 12 | rum | rum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 rum | punct |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 rum | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 is | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 rum | cop |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 rum | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 rum | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Drum | det |
| 20 | Drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | aux |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 said | aux |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sung | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 sung | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 mother | nmod:poss |
| 27 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 sung | aux |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 sung | aux |
| 30 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 said | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 seen | punct |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 seen | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 seen | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 seen | aux |
| 35 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 sung | conj |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 dreamt | cc |
| 37 | dreamt | dreamt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 seen | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 dreamt | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | ma rum | drum ma rum | there | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | might · perfect · passive | drum ma rum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | might · perfect · passive | hair's mother | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | dreamt | infinitive | mother not said here | rum | 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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