Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 25

"She gives good milk, I am certain," said the peasant to himself. "

Who acts: cow, peasant · What happens: give, be, say · To what, where: good milk, peasant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cow, peasant), 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 gives	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 milk	amod
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 certain	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 certain	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 certain	cop
9	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gives	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 certain	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 gives	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gives	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 peasant	det
14	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 said	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gives	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	present	cow	good milk			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	the peasant = peasant			certain property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the peasant		peasant		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient

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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