Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 125

“It is delightful here in winter!” said the little maiden.

Who acts: picking, little maiden · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (picking, little maiden), 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 delightful	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 delightful	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 delightful	cop
4	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 delightful	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delightful	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 delightful	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 delightful	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 maiden	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 maiden	amod
13	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	picking			here	winter	delightful property	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	the little maiden						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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