Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 48

"Is it possible?" said the lord-in-waiting, "I never imagined it would be a little, plain, simple thing like that.

Who acts: bird, waiting · What happens: be, say, not imagine · 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 (bird, waiting), 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	_	4 possible	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 possible	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 possible	nsubj
4	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 possible	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 possible	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 waiting	det
9	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waiting	nsubj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 waiting	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 waiting	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 in	punct
13	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 imagined	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 imagined	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 imagined	nsubj
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 imagined	advmod
18	imagined	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 little	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 little	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 little	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 little	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 imagined	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thing	punct
25	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 thing	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 plain	punct
27	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 thing	amod
28	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 little	conj
29	like	like	ADP	_	30 that	case
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 thing	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	bird	possible property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	the waiting		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not imagine in a quote	past	the waiting = waiting		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is in a quote	would	bird	little 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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