Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixteenth Evening, sentence 6

Mother,' she cried, 'what will the little dogs think, when they see me in these splendid new things?'"

Who acts: bride, little dogs, dogs · What happens: cry, think, see · To what, where: Mother, me, splendid new things

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, little dogs, dogs), 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	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mother	punct
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	nsubj
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 think	obj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 think	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dogs	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dogs	amod
12	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 think	nsubj
13	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 see	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
17	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 think	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 things	case
20	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 things	nsubj
21	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 things	amod
22	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 things	amod
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 see	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	bride	Mother		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	future	the little dogs			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	see	present	dogs = dog	me	splendid new things	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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