Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 17
"'Poor fellow,' observed a third, 'and his aunt is so happy about him.
Who acts: Poor fellow, aunt · What happens: observe, be · To what, where: third
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor fellow, aunt), 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 | _ | 7 observed | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fellow | punct |
| 3 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fellow | amod |
| 4 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 observed | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fellow | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fellow | punct |
| 7 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 third | det |
| 9 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 observed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 observed | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 observed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 happy | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 14 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 happy | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 happy | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 happy | advmod |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 observed | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 happy | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe in a quote | past | Poor fellow | a third | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent third=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | fellow's aunt | about fellow; happy property | 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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