Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 30
"Neither of them," said the parlor-cat; "it is always the safest plan to believe nothing you hear."
Who acts: Neither, quarrel, you · What happens: say, be, believe, hear · To what, where: parlor cat, safest plan, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At 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 (Neither, quarrel, 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Neither | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Neither | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Neither | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cat | det |
| 9 | parlor | parlor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cat | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 parlor | punct |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 plan | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 plan | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 plan | cop |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 plan | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plan | det |
| 18 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 plan | amod |
| 19 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 believe | mark |
| 21 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 plan | acl |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 believe | obj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 hear | nsubj |
| 24 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 plan | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 plan | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Neither | the parlor cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | quarrel | the safest plan | always property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | believe in a quote | to-infinitive | Neither not said here | nothing | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | present | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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