Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 9
"What odd figures!" thought he; "they must be returning from some masquerade."
Who acts: odd figures, figures · What happens: think, return · To what, where: moon, masquerade · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (odd figures, figures), 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 | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 thought | obj |
| 3 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 figures | amod |
| 4 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 figures | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 figures | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 returning | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 returning | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 returning | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 returning | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 returning | aux |
| 14 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 masquerade | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 masquerade | det |
| 17 | masquerade | masquerade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returning | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 returning | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | odd figures | moon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return in a quote | must · progressive | figures = figure | some masquerade | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from masquerade=Initial_Location |
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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