Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 74
"It is really necessary that I should mould the clay myself," he replied.
Who acts: Alfred · What happens: be, mould, reply · To what, where: Alfred · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alfred), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 necessary | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 necessary | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 necessary | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 necessary | advmod |
| 5 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 mould | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 mould | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 mould | aux |
| 9 | mould | mould | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 necessary | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clay | det |
| 11 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 myself | nsubj |
| 12 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 mould | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 replied | nsubj |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 necessary | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 necessary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | necessary property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mould in a quote | should | Alfred | Alfred | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Alfred | vn respond-113 «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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