Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 201
"Why, Death is a most splendid Luk-Oie," said Hjalmar. "
Who acts: Death, splendid Luk · What happens: be, say · To what, where: splendid Luk, Hjalmar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death, splendid Luk), 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 | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Luk | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Luk | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Luk | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 splendid | advmod |
| 8 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Luk | amod |
| 9 | Luk | Luk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Oie | punct |
| 11 | Oie | Oie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Luk | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Luk | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Luk | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hjalmar | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hjalmar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Death | a splendid Luk and Oie | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a splendid Luk and Oie | Hjalmar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hjalmar=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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