Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 165
"You have found in the earth the best thing you could find," said the magistrate.
Who acts: You, magistrate · What happens: find, say · To what, where: earth, best thing · 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 (You, magistrate), 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 | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 earth | det |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 thing | amod |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 earth | appos |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thing | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 magistrate | det |
| 18 | magistrate | magistrate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | present · perfect | You | the earth | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | could | you | the best thing not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the magistrate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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