Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 54
Nay, how lonely the old man is--do you think that he gets kisses?
Who acts: old man, you, man · What happens: be, think, get · To what, where: kisses · 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 (old man, you, man), 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 4 lonely | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lonely | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 lonely | advmod |
| 4 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lonely | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lonely | cop |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 think | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 think | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 think | nsubj |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lonely | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 gets | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gets | nsubj |
| 15 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 think | ccomp |
| 16 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gets | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 lonely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the old man | lonely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | present | man | kisses | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kiss=Stimulus |
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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