Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 65
“Dead he certainly is not,” said the Roses.
Who acts: Dead, Roses · What happens: not be, say · To what, where: Dead · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dead, Roses), 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 | _ | 2 Dead | punct |
| 2 | Dead | dead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 is | nsubj |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 is | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Dead | acl:relcl |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 is | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dead | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dead | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Roses | det |
| 11 | Roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be in a quote | present | Dead | Dead not said here | certainly property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dead=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Roses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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