Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 9

“You are certainly a girdle,” said the collar; “that is to say an inside girdle.

Who acts: You, girdle, that · What happens: be, say · To what, where: girdle, collar · 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, girdle, that), 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	_	6 girdle	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 girdle	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 girdle	cop
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 girdle	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girdle	det
6	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 girdle	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 girdle	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 collar	det
11	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 say	nsubj:outer
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 say	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 say	mark
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 girdle	det
19	inside	inside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 girdle	amod
20	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 say	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	You	a girdle	certainly property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a girdle	the collar		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent collar=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	that		say property	tree rules

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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