Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 221

"You speak very affectionately of your husband," observed Holberg, "and yet the people say that he ill-uses you every day."

Who acts: You, people, husband · What happens: speak, observe, say, use · To what, where: Holberg, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, people, husband), 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	_	3 speak	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 speak	nsubj
3	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 affectionately	advmod
5	affectionately	affectionately	ADV	_	3 speak	advmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 husband	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 affectionately	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 observed	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 observed	punct
11	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 speak	conj
12	Holberg	Holberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 observed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 observed	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 observed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 say	cc
16	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 say	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 people	det
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 say	nsubj
19	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 observed	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 uses	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 uses	nsubj
22	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 he	conj
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 ill	punct
24	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 say	ccomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 uses	obj
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 uses	obl:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 speak	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other in a quote	present	You			affectionately property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	observe	past	You not said here	Holberg			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent holberg=Topic
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the people		yet		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	use in a quote	present	husband	you	day		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: 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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