Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 41
He who spoke was a king's son, and therefore the others said that such a one always wishes to be cleverer than other people.
Who acts: other, others, one · What happens: speak, be, say, wish · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, others, one), 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 | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 son | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 11 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 others | det |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 wishes | mark |
| 16 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 one | det:predet |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wishes | nsubj |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 wishes | advmod |
| 20 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 cleverer | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 cleverer | cop |
| 23 | cleverer | clever | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 wishes | ccomp |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 people | case |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 people | amod |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cleverer | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | other | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | a king's son | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the others | therefore property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wish | present | such one | always property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | than other people; clever property | 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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