Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 5
A considerable time elapsed: one said to the other, "I really wonder if there is a church out in the wood.
Who acts: I, church · What happens: elapse, say, wonder, be out · To what, where: considerable time, one, other, wood · 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 (I, church), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | elapsed | elapse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 time | acl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 said | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 other | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wonder | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wonder | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 wonder | nsubj |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 wonder | advmod |
| 15 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 is | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wonder | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 church | det |
| 20 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 is | compound:prt |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 wood | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wood | det |
| 24 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elapse | participle | a considerable time not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | participle · passive | one | the other | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to other=Recipient | |||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | be out a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | a church | the wood; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
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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