Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 24
I crack for everybody," said the cracker.
Who acts: I, riding whip · What happens: crack, say · To what, where: cracker · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, riding whip), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 crack | nsubj |
| 2 | crack | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 everybody | case |
| 4 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 crack | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crack | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cracker | det |
| 9 | cracker | cracker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | present | I | for everybody | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the riding whip = whip not said here | the cracker | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cracker=Topic |
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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