Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 130
The words were not what he wished to say, so he tore up the page.
Who acts: words, Ib · What happens: not be, wish, say, tore up · To what, where: page · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, Ib), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 what | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 what | advmod |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wished | nsubj |
| 7 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 say | mark |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wished | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tore | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 tore | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tore | nsubj |
| 13 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 tore | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 page | det |
| 16 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tore | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the words | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wish | past | Ib | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ib not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tore up | past | Ib | the page | 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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