Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 190
“It is said in a very straight-forward and well-meant manner.
What happens: say, mean · To what, where: sun, straight manner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 said | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux:pass |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 manner | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 manner | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 straight | advmod |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 manner | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 forward | punct |
| 10 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 8 straight | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 meant | cc |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 meant | advmod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 well | punct |
| 14 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 straight | conj |
| 15 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · passive | sun | a straight manner | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in manner=Manner | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | participle | well property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V 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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