Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 30
"Now we are masters of the house," said the parlor-cat.
Who acts: we, masters · What happens: be, say · To what, where: masters, parlor cat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, masters), 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 | _ | 5 masters | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 masters | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 masters | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 masters | cop |
| 5 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 masters | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 masters | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 masters | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cat | det |
| 13 | parlor | parlor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cat | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 parlor | punct |
| 15 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | we | masters | now | of the house | tree rules | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | masters | the parlor cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=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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