Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 55
"He says," replied Little Claus, "that there are three bottles of wine for us, standing in the corner, by the oven."
Who acts: Claus, Little Claus · What happens: say, reply, be, stand · To what, where: three bottles, corner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Claus, Little Claus), 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 | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Claus | amod |
| 8 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bottles | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 bottles | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 are | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 are | expl |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bottles | cop |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 bottles | nummod |
| 15 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 replied | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wine | case |
| 17 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bottles | nmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 standing | punct |
| 21 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 replied | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 corner | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 corner | det |
| 24 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 standing | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 oven | punct |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 oven | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 oven | det |
| 28 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 standing | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Claus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Little Claus | for us | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | three bottles | of wine | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stand in a quote | gerund | Little Claus not said here | the corner | by the oven | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
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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