Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 1
"Well, I declare, there lies a pair of goloshes," said the watchman. "
Who acts: watchman · What happens: declare, lie, say · To what, where: pair · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watchman), 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 declare | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 declare | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 declare | nsubj |
| 5 | declare | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lies | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 lies | expl |
| 8 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 declare | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pair | det |
| 10 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lies | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 goloshes | case |
| 12 | goloshes | golosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pair | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 declare | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 declare | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 watchman | det |
| 17 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other in a quote | present | the watchman = watchman | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lie in a quote | present | the watchman = watchman not said here | a pair of goloshes | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pair=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the watchman | 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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