Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 10
"There it goes," she said; "the more I pluck, the more beautiful do I get."
Who acts: roost, sun, many · What happens: go, say, pluck, get · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roost, sun, many), 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 goes | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 goes | expl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 goes | parataxis |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 pluck | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 pluck | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 more | det |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 pluck | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 pluck | nsubj |
| 14 | pluck | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 goes | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beautiful | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beautiful | det |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 goes | advcl |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 get | nsubj |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 beautiful | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present | roost | there | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pluck in a quote | present | many | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get in a quote | present · do-support | many | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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