Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 31
“Such a pair of shoes must be very warm and comfortable,” said he; “the leather is so soft and supple.”
Who acts: pair, leather · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pair, leather), 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 | _ | 10 warm | punct |
| 2 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 pair | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pair | det |
| 4 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 warm | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 shoes | case |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pair | nmod |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 warm | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 warm | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 warm | advmod |
| 10 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 comfortable | cc |
| 12 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 warm | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 warm | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 warm | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 soft | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 soft | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 leather | det |
| 20 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 soft | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 soft | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 soft | advmod |
| 23 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 supple | cc |
| 25 | supple | supple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 soft | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 soft | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 soft | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | must | such pair of shoes | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | such pair of shoes not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | pair | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the leather | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | the leather not said here | tree rules |
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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