Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 109
"There stands the old skeleton still!" he said.
Who acts: Drum · What happens: stand, say · To what, where: old skeleton · 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 (Drum), 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 | _ | 3 stands | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stands | expl |
| 3 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 skeleton | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 skeleton | amod |
| 6 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stands | obj |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 stands | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 stands | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stands | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | present | the old skeleton | there | still | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skeleton=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Drum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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