Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 43
"Oh, that is really a very, very great gift," said the old lamp; "I thank you most heartily.
Who acts: that, great gift · What happens: be, say, thank · To what, where: great gift, old lamp, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, great gift), 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 | _ | 12 gift | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 12 gift | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 gift | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gift | cop |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 gift | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 gift | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 great | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 very | punct |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 great | advmod |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gift | amod |
| 12 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gift | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 gift | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lamp | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lamp | amod |
| 18 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 thank | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 thank | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 thank | nsubj |
| 22 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 thank | obj |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 heartily | advmod |
| 25 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 22 thank | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | a great gift | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a great gift | the old lamp | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | a great gift = gift | you | heartily property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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