Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 127
“Oh,” exclaimed the clerical gentleman smiling, “there is much wit in them; besides they are read at court.
Who acts: clerical gentleman · What happens: exclaim, smile, wit, read · To what, where: novels, court · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerical gentleman), 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 | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 exclaimed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gentleman | det |
| 7 | clerical | clerical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gentleman | amod |
| 8 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | obj |
| 9 | smiling | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 gentleman | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wit | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wit | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 wit | expl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wit | aux:pass |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 wit | advmod |
| 15 | wit | wit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 exclaimed | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wit | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 read | punct |
| 19 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 22 read | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 read | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 read | aux:pass |
| 22 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 exclaimed | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 court | case |
| 24 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 read | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | the clerical gentleman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | the clerical gentleman not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wit in a quote | present · passive | the clerical gentleman not said here | there | in novels = novel | tree rules | |||
| 4 | read in a quote | present · passive | novels = novel | court | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at court=Value |
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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