Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 13
"We are not very badly off, here in the canton Valais," said his uncle one day; "we have the chamois, they do not die so fast as the wild goats, and it is certainly much better here now than in former times.
Who acts: We, uncle, strangers, chamois · What happens: not be, say, have, not die, be · To what, where: chamois · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, uncle, strangers, chamois), 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 | _ | 7 off | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 off | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 off | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 off | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 badly | advmod |
| 6 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 off | advmod |
| 7 | off | off | ADV | _ | 16 said | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 here | punct |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 off | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 canton | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 canton | det |
| 12 | canton | canton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 here | obl |
| 13 | Valais | Valais | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 canton | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 off | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 off | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 18 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 day | nummod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 chamois | det |
| 26 | chamois | chamois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 die | punct |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 die | nsubj |
| 29 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 die | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 die | advmod |
| 31 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 have | conj |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 fast | advmod |
| 33 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 die | advmod |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 goats | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 goats | det |
| 36 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 goats | amod |
| 37 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 fast | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 better | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 better | cc |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 better | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 better | cop |
| 42 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 43 much | advmod |
| 43 | much | much | ADV | _ | 44 better | advmod |
| 44 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 said | ccomp |
| 45 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 better | advmod |
| 46 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 better | advmod |
| 47 | than | than | ADP | _ | 50 times | case |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 times | case |
| 49 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 times | amod |
| 50 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 now | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | We | badly, off property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Rudy's uncle | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | the chamois | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamois=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not die in a quote | present · do-support | strangers = stranger | fast property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | chamois | here | now | good property | 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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