Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 88
“I am speaking about my story--about my dream,” answered the Convolvulus.
Who acts: Convolvulus, my · What happens: speak, answer, dream · 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 (Convolvulus, my), 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 | _ | 4 speaking | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 speaking | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 speaking | aux |
| 4 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 story | nmod:poss |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speaking | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 dream | punct |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 dream | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dream | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speaking | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 speaking | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 speaking | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Convolvulus | det |
| 16 | Convolvulus | Convolvulus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other in a quote | present · progressive | the Convolvulus = convolvulus | about my story | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about story=Topic | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Convolvulus | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | dream in a quote | my | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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