Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 66
“It is really disgraceful what a state this place is in,” muttered he to himself.
Who acts: railway, state · What happens: be, mutter · To what, where: unintelligible · 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 (railway, state), 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 disgraceful | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 disgraceful | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 disgraceful | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 disgraceful | advmod |
| 5 | disgraceful | disgraceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 muttered | ccomp |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 disgraceful | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 state | det |
| 8 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 in | nsubj |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 in | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 in | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 disgraceful | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 disgraceful | punct |
| 15 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 muttered | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 muttered | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 muttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | railway | disgraceful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | a state | in property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mutter speech: assert | past | unintelligible | unintelligible | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to himself=Recipient |
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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