Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 25
No,' replied the coachman, 'it's only a heap of stones; but the trees are remarkable.' '
Who acts: coachman, trees · What happens: reply, be · To what, where: coachman, heap
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 (coachman, trees), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 replied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coachman | det |
| 6 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heap | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 heap | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heap | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 heap | cop |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 heap | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 heap | det |
| 13 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coachman | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stones | case |
| 15 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 heap | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 remarkable | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 remarkable | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trees | det |
| 19 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 remarkable | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 remarkable | cop |
| 21 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 replied | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 remarkable | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 remarkable | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the coachman and a heap | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent coachman=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | coachman | a heap | of stones | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | the trees | remarkable property | tree rules |
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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