Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 20
He was very proud, and said, "Thorwalsden lived close to me, and here I am now, quite comfortable."
Who acts: parrot, Thorwalsden · What happens: be, say, live · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parrot, Thorwalsden), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 proud | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proud | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 proud | advmod |
| 4 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proud | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
| 10 | Thorwalsden | Thorwalsden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 12 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lived | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 close | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 here | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 here | cc |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 proud | conj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 am | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 proud | parataxis |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 am | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 comfortable | punct |
| 22 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 23 comfortable | advmod |
| 23 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 proud | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proud | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | parrot | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | live in a quote | past | Thorwalsden | close property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | parrot not said here | tree rules |
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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