Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 98
"But I am the eldest!" exclaimed the third.
Who acts: eldest · What happens: be, exclaim · To what, where: third · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest), 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 | _ | 6 eldest | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 eldest | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 eldest | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 eldest | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eldest | det |
| 6 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 eldest | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 eldest | punct |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 third | det |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 exclaimed | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the eldest = eld | eld property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the eldest | the third | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent third=Topic |
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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