Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 47
“Yes, of course! you may be sure of that,” said the hair-comb.
Who acts: you, hair comb · What happens: be, say · 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, hair comb), 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 | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 10 sure | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 of | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 2 Yes | advmod |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 of | fixed |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 sure | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sure | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sure | cop |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 that | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 sure | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 comb | det |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 comb | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 hair | punct |
| 19 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | may | you | of that; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the hair comb | 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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