Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 12

How kind and straightforward the old count is! and he talks exactly like you and me.

Who acts: old count, Count · What happens: be, talk · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old count, Count), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 kind	advmod
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 straightforward	cc
4	straightforward	straightforward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kind	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 count	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 count	amod
7	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 kind	cop
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 kind	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 talks	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 talks	nsubj
12	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 kind	conj
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	15 you	advmod
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 talks	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 me	cc
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 you	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the old count		kind property	tree rules
2	be		the old count not said here			tree rules
3	talk	present	Count	you		vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=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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