Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 97
"Ah, well, you understand what you're about," said the woman.
Who acts: you, woman · What happens: understand, be, say · 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 (you, woman), 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 | _ | 7 understand | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 understand | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 understand | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 understand | nsubj |
| 7 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 said | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 about | nsubj |
| 10 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 about | cop |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 about | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 about | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 understand | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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