Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 13

"It must certainly be a Jewish child, its skin is so dark," the people said.

Who acts: many, Jewish child, people · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Jewish child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, Jewish child, people), 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	_	14 dark	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 child	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 child	aux
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	8 child	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 child	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
7	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	amod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dark	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 skin	punct
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 skin	nmod:poss
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 child	conj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dark	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 dark	advmod
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 people	det
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dark	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	must	many	a Jewish child and many's skin	certainly property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	a Jewish child and many's skin		dark property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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