Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 15
The postillion blew his horn, but he only thought, 'I can play capitally.
Who acts: postillion, I · What happens: blow, think, play · To what, where: horn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (postillion, I), 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 postillion | det |
| 2 | postillion | postillion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horn | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 thought | advmod |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 play | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 play | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 play | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 play | aux |
| 15 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | capitally | capitally | ADV | _ | 15 play | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the postillion | postillion's horn | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | postillion | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | play | can | I | capitally property | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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