Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 32
"He must become a chorister boy," said his mother. "
Who acts: name, mother · What happens: become, say · To what, where: chorister boy · 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, mother), 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 | _ | 4 become | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 become | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 6 | chorister | chorister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boy | compound |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become in a quote | must | name | a chorister boy | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | name's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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