Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 41
"Don't make such a long story of it," said the mother of the winds; "what sort of a place is Bear's Island?"
Who acts: you, mother, sort · What happens: not make, say, be, sort · To what, where: long story, Island, place · 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 (you, mother, sort), 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 | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 story | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 story | amod |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 story | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mother | det |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 winds | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 winds | det |
| 18 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mother | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 Island | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 sort | punct |
| 21 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 22 sort | det |
| 22 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Island | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sort | nmod |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 Island | cop |
| 27 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Island | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 Bear | case |
| 29 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obl |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 Island | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | such long story of story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the mother of the winds | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | what sort of a place | Bear's Island | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sort in a quote | a place | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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