Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 83

"You have become quite an Italian," said the General's lady, "and I presume you speak the language like a native?"

Who acts: You, lady, little Master George · What happens: become, say, presume, speak · To what, where: language · 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 (You, lady, little Master George), 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 become	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 become	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 Italian	advmod
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Italian	det
7	Italian	Italian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Italian	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Italian	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Italian	parataxis
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	10 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Italian	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 presume	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 presume	nsubj
19	presume	presume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 become	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 speak	nsubj
21	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 presume	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 language	det
23	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 speak	obj
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 native	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 native	det
26	native	native	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 language	nmod
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 presume	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 presume	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become in a quote	present · perfect	You		italian property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the General's lady			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	presume in a quote	infinitive	Our little Master George = george			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	speak speech: other in a quote	infinitive	you	the language	like a native	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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