Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 5
These things must keep the feet very warm," said he; "they are of such nice soft leather."
Who acts: things, man · What happens: keep, say, be · To what, where: feet · 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 (things, man), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 things | det |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 feet | det |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 keep | obj |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 warm | advmod |
| 8 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 leather | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 leather | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 leather | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 leather | cop |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 leather | case |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 leather | amod |
| 19 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 leather | amod |
| 20 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 leather | amod |
| 21 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | must | this things | the feet | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | things = thing | of such nice soft leather | tree rules |
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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