Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 18
"But it is fastened to the bread-tree," replied the poet. "
Who acts: poet · What happens: fasten, reply · To what, where: foot · 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 (poet), 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 fastened | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 fastened | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fastened | aux:pass |
| 5 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 8 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 bread | punct |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fastened | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fastened | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 poet | det |
| 15 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten in a quote | present · passive | foot | to the bread tree | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the poet | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: 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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