Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 24
They are strange people, these poets," thought the clerk. "
Who acts: poets, strange people · What happens: be, think · To what, where: strange people, clerk
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 (poets, strange people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 people | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 people | cop |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 poets | punct |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 poets | det |
| 7 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 people | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 people | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 people | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 clerk | det |
| 12 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | poets = poet | strange people and this poets | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | strange people and this poets | the clerk | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot clerk=Theme |
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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