Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 32
"Certainly I may shout," retorted the man; "I'm Prince Carnival, travelling under the name of FEBRUARY."
Who acts: man, sentry · What happens: shout, retort, be, travel, name · To what, where: Prince Carnival, name, FEBRUARY · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, sentry), 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 | _ | 5 shout | punct |
| 2 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 shout | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 shout | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 shout | aux |
| 5 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 retorted | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 retorted | punct |
| 8 | retorted | retort | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shout | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 retorted | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Carnival | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Carnival | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 Carnival | nsubj |
| 14 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Carnival | cop |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Carnival | compound |
| 16 | Carnival | Carnival | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 shout | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 travelling | punct |
| 18 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 shout | advcl |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 name | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 name | det |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 travelling | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 FEBRUARY | case |
| 23 | FEBRUARY | FEBRUARY | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 name | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shout | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 shout | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express in a quote | may | the man = man | certainly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | retort speech: other | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the sentry = sentry | Prince Carnival | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | travel in a quote | gerund | the sentry = sentry not said here | the name of FEBRUARY | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under name=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | name in a quote | FEBRUARY | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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