Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 133
“Yes, he is our first printer,” replied the clerical gentleman hastily.
Who acts: name, first printer · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: first printer, clerical gentleman · 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 (name, first printer), 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 | _ | 8 printer | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 printer | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 printer | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 printer | cop |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 printer | nmod:poss |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 printer | amod |
| 8 | printer | printer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 printer | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 printer | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gentleman | det |
| 13 | clerical | clerical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gentleman | amod |
| 14 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 15 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 11 replied | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | name | our first printer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | our first printer | the clerical gentleman | hastily property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gentleman=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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