Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 53
“I have had such an immense number of sweethearts!” said the collar.
Who acts: collar · What happens: have, say · To what, where: immense number · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | aux |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 number | det:predet |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 number | det |
| 7 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 number | amod |
| 8 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sweethearts | case |
| 10 | sweethearts | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 number | nmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 collar | det |
| 15 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present · perfect | the collar = collar | such immense number of sweethearts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the collar | 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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