Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 69
“That is very easily said,” answered the Raven.
Who acts: Raven · What happens: say, answer · To what, where: That · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Raven), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux:pass |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 easily | advmod |
| 5 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Raven | det |
| 11 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · passive | That | easily property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Raven | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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: «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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