Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 12

“Hear how it beats like a drum on the dock-leaves!” said Father Snail.

Who acts: house, Father Snail · What happens: hear, beat, say · To what, where: dock leaves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, Father Snail), 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	_	2 Hear	punct
2	Hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 beats	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 beats	nsubj
5	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Hear	advcl
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 drum	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 drum	det
8	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beats	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 leaves	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 leaves	det
11	dock	dock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaves	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 dock	punct
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 beats	obl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hear	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hear	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Snail	compound
18	Snail	Snail	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	infinitive				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	beat in a quote	present	house	the dock leaves	like a drum	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leaf=Location
3	say speech: express	past	Father Snail			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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