Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 28

“It's a strange race, those poets!” said the clerk, who was very fond of soliloquizing.

Who acts: opinion, strange race, clerk · What happens: be, say, soliloquize · To what, where: strange race, clerk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opinion, strange race, clerk), 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	_	6 race	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 race	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 race	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 race	det
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 race	amod
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 poets	punct
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 poets	det
9	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 race	conj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 race	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 race	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 clerk	det
14	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fond	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 fond	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fond	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 fond	advmod
19	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 clerk	acl:relcl
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 soliloquizing	mark
21	soliloquizing	soliloquize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 fond	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	opinion	a strange race and that poets		tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	a strange race and that poets	the clerk		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent clerk=Topic
3	is	past	the clerk		fond property	tree rules
4	soliloquize	gerund	the clerk 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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