Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 20
"Celebrity is always something!" said the drummer; and so he scratched his own name there, and his little son's name likewise.
Who acts: Celebrity, something, drummer, little son · What happens: be, say, scratch, name · To what, where: something, drummer, own name · 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 (Celebrity, something, drummer, little son), 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 something | punct |
| 2 | Celebrity | celebrity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 something | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 something | cop |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 something | advmod |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 something | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 something | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 drummer | det |
| 10 | drummer | drummer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 scratched | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 scratched | cc |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 scratched | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 scratched | nsubj |
| 15 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 name | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 name | amod |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scratched | obj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 scratched | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 name | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 name | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 son | amod |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 name | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 son | case |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scratched | obl |
| 27 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 15 scratched | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Celebrity | something | always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | something | the drummer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent drummer=Topic | ||||
| 3 | scratch | past | drummer | drummer's own name | there | drummer's little son's name obl; likewise property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||
| 4 | name | drummer | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | name | drummer's little son | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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