Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 13
“There are also rain-drops!” said Mother Snail.
Who acts: rain drops · What happens: be, say · To what, where: rain drops, Mother Snail · 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 (rain drops), 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 | _ | 7 drops | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 drops | cop |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 are | advmod |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drops | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 rain | punct |
| 7 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 drops | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 drops | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Snail | compound |
| 12 | Snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | rain drops | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | rain drops | Mother Snail | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent snail=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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