Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 96
"These boys of yours are very lively," said the prince.
Who acts: boys, lively · What happens: be, say · 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 (boys, lively), 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 | _ | 8 lively | punct |
| 2 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 boys | det |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lively | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 yours | case |
| 5 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 boys | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lively | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 lively | advmod |
| 8 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lively | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lively | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | this boys of yours | lively property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | lively | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=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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