Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 15
And the town repeated what the Fire-drum had said.
What happens: repeat, say · To what, where: town, Fire drum · 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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 repeated | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 town | det |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 said | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 drum | det |
| 7 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 drum | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fire | punct |
| 9 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | aux |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 repeated | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | participle · passive | the town | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the Fire drum | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner |
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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