Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 27
"'One of the happiest!' said the lecturer, as if the idea pleased him; 'are you really happy?'
Who acts: One, ' · What happens: say, be · To what, where: lecturer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, '), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 One | punct |
| 3 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 happiest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 happiest | det |
| 6 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 One | nmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 happiest | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 happiest | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lecturer | det |
| 11 | lecturer | lecturer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pleased | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 pleased | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 pleased | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 idea | det |
| 16 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pleased | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pleased | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 happy | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 happy | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 happy | cop |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 happy | nsubj |
| 23 | really | really | ADV | _ | 24 happy | advmod |
| 24 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | parataxis |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 happy | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | One of the happiest | the lecturer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lecturer=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | ' | happy 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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