Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 7

Oh,' said the person addressed--he was a poet himself--'it is good enough; a little broad, certainly; but, you see, the author is still young.

Who acts: editor, poet, you, author · What happens: say, address, be, see · To what, where: person, poet · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (editor, poet, you, author), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
7	addressed	address	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 person	acl
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 poet	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 poet	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 poet	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 poet	det
12	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 person	conj
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	12 poet	nmod:unmarked
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 good	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 good	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 good	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 good	cop
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	parataxis
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 good	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 broad	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 little	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 broad	obl:unmarked
23	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 certainly	punct
25	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	23 broad	advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 see	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 but	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
30	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 young	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 author	det
33	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 young	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 young	cop
35	still	still	ADV	_	36 young	advmod
36	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 see	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the person and a poet			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent person=Topic
2	address	participle		the person and a poet not said here			vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	editor	a poet		editor nmod:unmarked	tree rules
4	is	present	poet			enough, good property	tree rules
5	see	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	present	the author		still	young 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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