Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 26
"Peter's name will last a full year and a half longer!" said the father.
Who acts: name, father, Peter · What happens: last, say, 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 (name, father, Peter), 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 | _ | 6 last | punct |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Peter | case |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 last | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 last | aux |
| 6 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 year | amod |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 last | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 longer | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 half | det |
| 12 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 13 longer | obj |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 last | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 last | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 last | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 father | det |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last in a quote | future | Peter's name | year | long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | name in a quote | Peter | 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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