Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 80
"You may as well laugh," said the turkey; "for that remark was rather witty, or perhaps it was above you.
Who acts: You, turkey, remark · What happens: laugh, say, be · 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 (You, turkey, remark), 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 | _ | 6 laugh | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 laugh | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 laugh | aux |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 6 laugh | cc |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 as | fixed |
| 6 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 laugh | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 laugh | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 turkey | det |
| 11 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 witty | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 witty | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 remark | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 remark | det |
| 16 | remark | remark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 witty | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 witty | cop |
| 18 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 19 witty | advmod |
| 19 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 you | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 you | cc |
| 22 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 26 you | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 you | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 you | cop |
| 25 | above | above | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 witty | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh in a quote | may | You | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the turkey | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | for that remark; witty property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | remark | above you; perhaps property | tree rules |
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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