Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 4
The old Count at the corner yonder has been speaking to me about you.
Who acts: old Count · What happens: speak · To what, where: me · 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 (old 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Count | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Count | amod |
| 3 | Count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 speaking | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 corner | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 corner | det |
| 6 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Count | nmod |
| 7 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 6 corner | advmod |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 speaking | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 speaking | aux |
| 10 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 speaking | obl |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 speaking | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 speaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present · perfect · progressive | the old Count at the corner | me | about you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent about you=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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