Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 88
Only think," he said, "She is going to the rich innkeeper's, at the hotel in Herning, many miles west from here.
Who acts: boatman, Christina · What happens: think, say, go · To what, where: many miles, hotel · 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 (boatman, Christina), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 think | advmod |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 9 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 going | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | aux |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 innkeeper | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 innkeeper | det |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 innkeeper | amod |
| 15 | innkeeper | innkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 innkeeper | case |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hotel | punct |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 hotel | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hotel | det |
| 20 | hotel | hotel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Herning | case |
| 22 | Herning | Herning | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hotel | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 miles | punct |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 miles | amod |
| 25 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 going | obl |
| 26 | west | west | ADV | _ | 25 miles | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 here | case |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 west | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | boatman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | Christina | many miles | the hotel in Herning | to the rich innkeeper | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to innkeeper=Initial_Location |
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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