Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 94
"You know very little about the weather, I fancy," she retorted, "the day is not over yet.
Who acts: You, sunshine, day · What happens: know, fancy, retort, not be · To what, where: little · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, sunshine, day), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 little | advmod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 know | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 weather | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 weather | det |
| 8 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 little | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fancy | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 fancy | nsubj |
| 11 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 retorted | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 retorted | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 retorted | nsubj |
| 15 | retorted | retort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 over | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 over | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 over | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 over | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 over | advmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 retorted | advmod |
| 23 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 22 over | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | You | little | about the weather | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fancy in a quote | sunshine | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | retort speech: other | past | sunshine | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | present | the day | yet | over 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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