Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 47
"We have nothing to lose," remarked the father.
Who acts: father · What happens: lose, remark · 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 (father), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 remarked | aux |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lose | mark |
| 6 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 remarked | punct |
| 9 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 father | det |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remarked | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose in a quote | to-infinitive | the father not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | present · perfect | the father | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=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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