Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 85
"Yes, I mean the new novels that we have at the present day."
Who acts: day stories, we · What happens: mean, have · To what, where: new novels
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day stories, we), 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 | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 mean | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 novels | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 novels | amod |
| 8 | novels | novel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mean | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 have | obj |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 novels | acl:relcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | day stories = story | the new novels | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent novel=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | we | the new novels | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
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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