Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 45
It is surprising how well you preserve your teeth, Miss,” said the collar.
Who acts: you, collar · What happens: be, preserve, say · To what, where: teeth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, collar), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 surprising | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprising | cop |
| 3 | surprising | surprising | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 preserve | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 preserve | nsubj |
| 7 | preserve | preserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprising | advcl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 preserve | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Miss | punct |
| 11 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 teeth | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 preserve | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprising | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprising | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 collar | det |
| 16 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprising | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | surprising property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | preserve | present | you | your teeth | well property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the collar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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