Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 46
Martin only said, "Ah! ah! you are one of that sort, are you?
Who acts: Martin, you · What happens: say, be · To what, where: one · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, you), 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 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 6 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 12 one | discourse |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ah | punct |
| 8 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 12 one | discourse |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 ah | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 one | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | cop |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sort | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 sort | det |
| 15 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 are | punct |
| 17 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 are | nsubj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Martin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | you | one | of that sort | tree rules | |||
| 3 | does in a quote | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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