Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 130
He speaks French as it is spoken in the Swiss cantons."
Who acts: Rudy · What happens: speak · To what, where: French, side, Swiss cantons · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 speaks | nsubj |
| 2 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 speaks | obj |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 spoken | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 spoken | aux:pass |
| 7 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 speaks | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cantons | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cantons | det |
| 10 | Swiss | Swiss | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cantons | amod |
| 11 | cantons | canton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spoken | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 speaks | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 speaks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | Rudy | French | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present · passive | side | the Swiss cantons | 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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