Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 119

“It may possibly be, however, that it is the same pewter soldier!” said she.

Who acts: head, wife · What happens: be, say · To what, where: same pewter soldier · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, wife), 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	_	5 be	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 be	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 be	aux
4	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	5 be	advmod
5	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 however	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	18 said	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 however	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 soldier	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 soldier	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 soldier	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 soldier	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 soldier	amod
14	pewter	pewter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 soldier	compound
15	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	advcl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 soldier	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 soldier	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	may	head		possibly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	head	the same pewter soldier		tree rules
3	say speech: express	past	wife		however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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