Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 123
“How very, very lonely he must have been!” said she.
What happens: have, be, say · 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: 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 lonely | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 very | advmod |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 lonely | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lonely | punct |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 lonely | advmod |
| 6 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 10 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 been | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 been | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lonely | conj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lonely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | infinitive | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | be in a quote | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: express | must | 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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