Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 7
The rest thought of this fact also, although they did not express it, for there were so many other things to talk about.
Who acts: rest, toys, many other things · What happens: think, not express, be, talk about · To what, where: rest · 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 (rest, toys, many other things), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rest | det |
| 2 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fact | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 fact | det |
| 6 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obl |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 fact | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 express | punct |
| 9 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 13 express | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 express | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 express | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 express | advmod |
| 13 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 express | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 were | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 were | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 were | expl |
| 18 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 express | parataxis |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 many | advmod |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 were | nsubj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 talk | mark |
| 24 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 things | acl |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 talk | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the rest | of this fact | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not express | past · do-support | toys = toy | rest | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | many other things | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | talk about | to-infinitive | many other things not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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