Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 8
"Well, in that I believe you are right," said he, as he thought of Babette.
Who acts: Rudy, you · What happens: believe, be, say, think · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, you), 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 13 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 believe | mark |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 believe | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 believe | nsubj |
| 7 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | advcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 right | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 right | cop |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 believe | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 believe | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 believe | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 thought | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Babette | case |
| 20 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 thought | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | present | Rudy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Rudy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Rudy | of Babette | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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