Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 27
"Yes, thank you, my friend," said the mother; "you are saying what you do not mean.
Who acts: mother, you · What happens: thank, say, not mean · To what, where: friend, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mother, you), 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 thank | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 thank | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 4 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 thank | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 friend | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friend | nmod:poss |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thank | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | 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 mother | det |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 saying | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 saying | aux |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 mean | obj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 mean | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 mean | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 mean | advmod |
| 23 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 saying | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | my friend | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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