Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 7
Those that are wet must be mine," thought he; but he thought wrong, it was just the reverse.
Who acts: pair, doubt · What happens: be, think · To what, where: mine, Those, reverse · 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 (pair, doubt), 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 thought | obl |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 wet | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wet | cop |
| 4 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Those | acl:relcl |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 mine | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 mine | cop |
| 7 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 1 Those | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Those | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | conj |
| 16 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thought | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 reverse | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 reverse | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 reverse | cop |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 reverse | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 reverse | det |
| 22 | reverse | reverse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wet property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | must | mine | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Those | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | past | pair | wrong property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | past | doubt | the reverse | 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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