Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 7
They are playing at work underground, like moles," said she. "
Who acts: men, Geneva · What happens: play, say · To what, where: work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Geneva), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 playing | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 playing | aux |
| 3 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 work | case |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 playing | obl |
| 6 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 3 playing | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 moles | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 moles | case |
| 9 | moles | mole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 playing | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 moles | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 moles | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present · progressive | men = man | work | underground property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Geneva | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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