Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 30
Ha! ha! ha!” screamed Polly, and added his stereotype witticism.
What happens: scream, add · To what, where: Polly, stereotype witticism
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: 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 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 8 screamed | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ha | punct |
| 3 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 1 Ha | discourse |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ha | punct |
| 5 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 1 Ha | discourse |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ha | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ha | punct |
| 8 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Polly | Polly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 screamed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 added | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 added | cc |
| 12 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 screamed | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 witticism | nmod:poss |
| 14 | stereotype | stereotype | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 witticism | compound |
| 15 | witticism | witticism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 added | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express in a quote | past | Polly | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent polly=Topic | |||||
| 2 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | Polly's stereotype witticism | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witticism=Patient |
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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