Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 131
"Ah, but I'm not a prisoner," remarked the fly, and away he flew.
Who acts: fly · What happens: not be, remark, fly · To what, where: prisoner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fly), 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 | _ | 9 prisoner | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 9 prisoner | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 prisoner | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 prisoner | nsubj |
| 6 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 prisoner | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 prisoner | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 prisoner | det |
| 9 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remarked | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 remarked | punct |
| 12 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 prisoner | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fly | det |
| 14 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remarked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flew | cc |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 flew | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 flew | nsubj |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 remarked | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 prisoner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | the fly = fly | a prisoner | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | the fly | a prisoner not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prisoner=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | fly | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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