Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 24
“Spare us your elegiac tones,” said the Parrot giggling.
Who acts: Parrot, your · What happens: spare, say, giggle, intonate · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parrot, your), 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 | _ | 2 Spare | punct |
| 2 | Spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Spare | obj |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tones | nmod:poss |
| 5 | elegiac | elegiac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tones | compound |
| 6 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Spare | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spare | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spare | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Parrot | det |
| 11 | Parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | giggling | giggle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 Parrot | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare in a quote | infinitive | us | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent we=Recipient tone=Asset | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Parrot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | giggle | gerund | the Parrot not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | intonate in a quote | your | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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