Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 71
"We shall have a visitor soon," said the field-mouse one day; "my neighbor pays me a visit once a week.
Who acts: We, neighbor · What happens: have, say, pay · To what, where: visitor, visit, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, neighbor), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 visitor | det |
| 6 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 have | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mouse | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 field | punct |
| 14 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 the | nmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 day | nummod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 pays | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 pays | punct |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 neighbor | nmod:poss |
| 20 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pays | nsubj |
| 21 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 pays | iobj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 visit | det |
| 24 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pays | obj |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 pays | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 week | det |
| 27 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 once | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | shall | We | a visitor | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pay in a quote | present | my neighbor | a visit | me | once property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient visit=Asset |
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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