Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 120
"He ought to have his hair dyed," said the neighbor's wife. "
Who acts: hair, wife · What happens: have, dye, say · To what, where: hair · 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 (hair, wife), 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 | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | dyed | dye | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 have | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 neighbor | det |
| 13 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 neighbor | case |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | ought | hair | hair's hair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dye in a quote | participle | hair's hair not said here | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the neighbor's wife | 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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