Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 152
"Oh, nothing ever happens to a man if he has confidence in himself," replied Rudy.
Who acts: nothing, man, Rudy · What happens: happen, have, reply · To what, where: confidence · 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 (nothing, man, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 nothing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 happens | nsubj |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 happens | advmod |
| 6 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happens | obl |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 has | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 replied | advcl |
| 13 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 confidence | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 replied | punct |
| 18 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happens | parataxis |
| 19 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 replied | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | present | nothing | ever | to a man | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | man | confidence | in man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Rudy | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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