Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 138
Ha! ha! ha!" laughed Polly, and repeated his witty saying, "Now let us be men."
Who acts: ha · What happens: laugh, repeat, let, be, say · To what, where: Polly, witty saying, us, men · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ha), 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 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 8 laughed | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 ha | punct |
| 3 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 5 ha | discourse |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 ha | punct |
| 5 | ha | ha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laughed | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 ha | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ha | punct |
| 8 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Polly | Polly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 laughed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 repeated | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 repeated | cc |
| 12 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 laughed | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 saying | nmod:poss |
| 14 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 saying | amod |
| 15 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 repeated | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 18 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 let | advmod |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 repeated | conj |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 men | cop |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 let | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughed | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh in a quote | past | ha | Polly | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent polly=Theme | ||||
| 2 | repeat in a quote | past | ha not said here | ha's witty saying | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saying=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | ha not said here | us | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | men | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | say in a quote | ha | nom saying «communication transitive»: poss=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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