Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 26
"The nobleman's castle, perhaps, has fallen to decay," said the snail-father, "or the burdock wood may have grown out.
Who acts: snail father · What happens: fall, decay, say, grow out · To what, where: castle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snail father), 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 castle | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nobleman | det |
| 3 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 castle | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 nobleman | case |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fallen | punct |
| 7 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 10 fallen | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fallen | punct |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fallen | aux |
| 10 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 castle | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 decay | mark |
| 12 | decay | decay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fallen | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 castle | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 castle | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 father | det |
| 17 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 father | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 snail | punct |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 grown | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 father | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 father | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 wood | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wood | det |
| 24 | burdock | burdock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wood | compound |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 father | conj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 grown | aux |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 grown | aux |
| 28 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 said | ccomp |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 grown | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in a quote | present · perfect | the nobleman's castle not said here | perhaps property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | decay in a quote | to-infinitive | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | grow out in a quote | may · perfect | the snail father or the burdock wood | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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