Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 21
"I only hope he's not become unwell," said the Yard Dog, and then he smelt at him again.
Who acts: Yard Dog, King · What happens: hope, not become, say, smelt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yard Dog, King), 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 hope | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 hope | advmod |
| 4 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 become | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 become | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 become | advmod |
| 8 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 hope | ccomp |
| 9 | unwell | unwell | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 become | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hope | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hope | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Dog | det |
| 14 | Yard | Yard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Dog | compound |
| 15 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 smelt | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 smelt | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 smelt | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 smelt | nsubj |
| 20 | smelt | smelt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 smelt | obl |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 smelt | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | present | the Yard Dog = dog | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not become in a quote | present · passive | King | unwell property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Yard Dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | smelt | past | King | then; again | at Dog | tree rules |
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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