Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 34

"Charming!" said the General, and even the General's lady acknowledged that it was easy to see what the boy had meant to draw. "

Who acts: Charming, lady, boy · What happens: say, acknowledge, be, see, mean, draw · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charming, lady, boy), 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	_	2 Charming	punct
2	Charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Charming	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Charming	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 General	det
7	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 acknowledged	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 acknowledged	cc
10	even	even	ADV	_	14 lady	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 General	det
12	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 lady	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 General	case
14	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 acknowledged	nsubj
15	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 easy	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 easy	expl
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 easy	cop
19	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 acknowledged	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 see	mark
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 easy	csubj
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 meant	obj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boy	det
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 meant	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 meant	aux
26	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 see	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 draw	mark
28	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 meant	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Charming		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	acknowledge	past	the General's lady		vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the General's lady not said here	easy property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	mean	past · perfect	the boy		tree rules
6	draw not said to happen	to-infinitive	the boy not said here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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