Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 2
"Child!" screamed the General's lady; "you are ill!
Who acts: Child, you · What happens: scream, be · To what, where: lady · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Child, 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 | _ | 2 Child | punct |
| 2 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 screamed | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Child | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Child | punct |
| 5 | screamed | scream | 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 | 9 lady | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 General | case |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 screamed | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 ill | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ill | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 ill | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ill | cop |
| 14 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 screamed | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | Child | the General's lady | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | ill property | 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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