Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 27
"Fool!" thought the Fire-drum; but it only said, "Dub, dub, dub, rub-a-dub!"
Who acts: Fool, rub · What happens: think, say, dub · To what, where: Fire drum, Dub · 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 (Fool, rub), 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 | _ | 2 Fool | punct |
| 2 | Fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fool | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fool | punct |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 5 thought | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Dub | punct |
| 17 | Dub | dub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dub | punct |
| 19 | dub | dub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Dub | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dub | punct |
| 21 | dub | dub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Dub | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dub | punct |
| 23 | rub | rub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dub | nsubj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 dub | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 dub | det |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 a | punct |
| 27 | dub | dub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Dub | appos |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 dub | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Dub | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Fool | the Fire drum | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot drum=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Fool | Dub and dub and dub | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dub in a quote | rub | tree rules |
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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