Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 35
Dear me, what pretty dancing-shoes!" said the soldier. "
Who acts: pretty dancing shoes · What happens: say · To what, where: soldier · 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 (pretty dancing shoes), 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 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Dear | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 said | obj |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shoes | amod |
| 6 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shoes | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 dancing | punct |
| 8 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 shoes | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 shoes | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dear | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 soldier | det |
| 13 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dear | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | pretty dancing shoes | the soldier | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme soldier=Manner |
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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