Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourth Evening, sentence 1
"This evening I saw a German play acted," said the Moon. "
Who acts: Moon · What happens: see, act, say · To what, where: German play · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon), 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 saw | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 play | det |
| 7 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 play | amod |
| 8 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | acted | act | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 play | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Moon | det |
| 14 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past | the Moon = moon | a German play | evening | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer play=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | act in a quote | participle | a German play not said here | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Moon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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