Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 18
"Well, then," said the little fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently."
Who acts: little fly, we · What happens: say, have, live, reckon · 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 (little fly, we), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fly | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fly | amod |
| 10 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 live | mark |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 time | acl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 reckon | punct |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 reckon | advmod |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 reckon | nsubj |
| 23 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 24 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 23 reckon | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the little fly | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | we | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reckon in a quote | present | we | differently property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: 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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