Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 54
"Now listen to what the Waistcoat says, little Anna," said grandpapa. "
Who acts: you, Waistcoat, grandpapa · What happens: listen, say · To what, where: little Anna · 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 (you, Waistcoat, grandpapa), 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 | _ | 3 listen | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 listen | advmod |
| 3 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 what | case |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 listen | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Waistcoat | det |
| 7 | Waistcoat | waistcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Anna | punct |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Anna | amod |
| 11 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 listen | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listen | parataxis |
| 15 | grandpapa | grandpapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | imperative | you not said here | little Anna | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the Waistcoat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | grandpapa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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