Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 34
Oh!" he cried, "what a naughty boy this Cupid is!
Who acts: boy, naughty boy · What happens: cry, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Saucy Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, naughty boy), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 cried | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 cried | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 10 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boy | amod |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 what | nsubj |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 Cupid | det |
| 13 | Cupid | Cupid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 what | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | cop |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | boy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a naughty boy | 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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