Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 5
"Master clerk," said a servant who entered with some papers.
Who acts: Master clerk, servant · What happens: say, enter · To what, where: servant · 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 (Master clerk, servant), 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 | _ | 3 clerk | punct |
| 2 | Master | master | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clerk | amod |
| 3 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 clerk | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 clerk | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 servant | det |
| 8 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 entered | nsubj |
| 10 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 servant | acl:relcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 papers | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 papers | det |
| 13 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 entered | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Master clerk | a servant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent servant=Topic | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | a servant | with some papers | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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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