Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 24
“Why, your bow is quite spoiled,” said the old poet.
Who acts: old poet · What happens: spoil, say · To what, where: bow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old poet), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 spoiled | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spoiled | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bow | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spoiled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 spoiled | aux:pass |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 spoiled | advmod |
| 8 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spoiled | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 spoiled | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 poet | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 poet | amod |
| 14 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil in a quote | present · passive | your bow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old poet | 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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