Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 25
"In the early ages of the world," said the old man, "these people could not be found in Switzerland.
Who acts: old man · What happens: say, not find · To what, where: early ages, people, Switzerland · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 ages | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ages | det |
| 4 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ages | amod |
| 5 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ages | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ages | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 found | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 found | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 found | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 found | aux:pass |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Switzerland | case |
| 24 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | in the early ages of the world | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in age=Manner | ||||
| 2 | not find in a quote | could · passive | this people | Switzerland | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=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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