Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 61

This is Mr. Pipe-head who is speaking. '

Who acts: This, Pipe head · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: Pipe head · 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 (This, Pipe head), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 head	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 head	cop
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 head	nsubj
4	Pipe	Pipe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 head	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 head	punct
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 speaking	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 speaking	aux
9	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 head	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 speaking	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 speaking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	Pipe head					tree rules
2	speak speech: other	present · progressive	Pipe head						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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