Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 10
But the mirror told her, "You are more than pretty--you are beautiful."
Who acts: mirror, Karen · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: Karen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mirror, Karen), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 told | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mirror | det |
| 3 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 more | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 more | punct |
| 8 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 more | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 more | cop |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 told | conj |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 pretty | case |
| 12 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 10 more | obl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 beautiful | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 beautiful | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 beautiful | cop |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 told | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 beautiful | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the mirror | Karen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Karen | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Karen | beautiful 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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