Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 161
"He plays before emperors and kings," said the town musician. "
Who acts: heaven, town musician · What happens: play, say · 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 (heaven, town musician), 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 plays | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 plays | nsubj |
| 3 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 emperors | case |
| 5 | emperors | emperor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 plays | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kings | cc |
| 7 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 emperors | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 emperors | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 plays | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 plays | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 musician | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 musician | compound |
| 13 | musician | musician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plays | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 plays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play in a quote | present | heaven | before emperors and kings | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the town musician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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