Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 41

"Oh," said a young courtier, "now we have found her; what wonderful power for such a small creature; I have certainly heard it before."

Who acts: young courtier, we · What happens: say, find, power, hear · To what, where: cow, creature · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young courtier, we), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 courtier	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 courtier	amod
8	courtier	courtier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 found	advmod
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 found	aux
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 courtier	acl:relcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 power	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 power	nsubj
18	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 power	amod
19	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 courtier	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	24 creature	case
21	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	24 creature	det:predet
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 creature	det
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 creature	amod
24	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 power	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 heard	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 heard	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 heard	aux
28	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	29 heard	advmod
29	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 heard	obj
31	before	before	ADV	_	29 heard	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a young courtier and wonderful power				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	find in a quote	present · perfect	we	cow	now		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
3	power in a quote		a young courtier and wonderful power			for such small creature	tree rules
4	hear in a quote	present · perfect	a young courtier and wonderful power = courtier	creature		before, certainly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=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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