Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 20
"Oh, indeed," said the prince; "but you speak more roughly and harshly and are not so gentle as the women I am used to."
Who acts: prince, you · What happens: say, speak, not be, use · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, you), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 2 Oh | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 speak | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 speak | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 speak | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 speak | nsubj |
| 14 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 roughly | advmod |
| 16 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 14 speak | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 harshly | cc |
| 18 | harshly | harshly | ADV | _ | 16 roughly | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gentle | cc |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 gentle | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 gentle | advmod |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 gentle | advmod |
| 23 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 speak | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 women | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 women | det |
| 26 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gentle | obl |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 used | nsubj |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 used | aux:pass |
| 29 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 women | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 used | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | you | roughly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | you not said here | as the women; gentle property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | use in a quote | present · passive | the prince = prince | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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