Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 25
"A domestic drama, please," said little Anna, "for the others are so fond of that.
Who acts: little Anna, others · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Anna, others), 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 drama | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 drama | det |
| 3 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drama | amod |
| 4 | drama | drama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 drama | punct |
| 6 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 9 said | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 please | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 please | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Anna | amod |
| 11 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 fond | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 others | det |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fond | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fond | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 fond | advmod |
| 19 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 that | case |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 fond | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | little Anna | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the others | of that; fond 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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