Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 34
"Fiery cat!" said some of the witty ones of the town.
Who acts: Fiery cat · What happens: say · To what, where: some · 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 (Fiery cat), 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 cat | punct |
| 2 | Fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cat | amod |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 cat | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cat | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ones | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ones | det |
| 10 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ones | amod |
| 11 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 some | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 town | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 town | det |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ones | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Fiery cat | some | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent some=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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