Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 6
"Yes, if I only knew a fresh one," said the old man, and nodded smilingly. "
Who acts: old man · What happens: know, say, nod · To what, where: fresh one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 knew | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 knew | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 knew | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 knew | advmod |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 nodded | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 nodded | cc |
| 19 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | parataxis |
| 20 | smilingly | smilingly | ADV | _ | 19 nodded | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 nodded | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | the old man = man | a fresh one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | nod | past | smilingly property | vn wink-40.3.1 «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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