Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 5
"Your father was the postilion, and I was the postilion's dog," said Ajola. "
Who acts: father, postilion · What happens: be, say · To what, where: postilion, dog · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, postilion), 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 | _ | 6 postilion | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 postilion | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 postilion | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 postilion | det |
| 6 | postilion | postilion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dog | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dog | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 dog | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dog | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 postilion | det |
| 12 | postilion | postilion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dog | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 postilion | case |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 postilion | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 postilion | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 postilion | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | Ajola | Ajola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ajola | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ajola | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Your father | the postilion and the postilion's dog | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | the postilion and the postilion's dog = postilion | the postilion's dog | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the postilion and the postilion's dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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