Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 17
"No," replied the tree; "it will certainly last much longer,--infinitely longer than I can even think of."
Who acts: tree, beauty · What happens: reply, last, think · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, beauty), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 last | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 last | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 last | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 last | aux |
| 12 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 13 last | advmod |
| 13 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 longer | advmod |
| 15 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 last | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 longer | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 longer | punct |
| 18 | infinitely | infinitely | ADV | _ | 19 longer | advmod |
| 19 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 last | advmod |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 24 think | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 think | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 think | aux |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 think | advmod |
| 24 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 longer | advcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 think | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 last | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the tree | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | last in a quote | future | beauty | certainly, long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | can | the tree = tree | 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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