Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 191
"Your royal highness must be on the high road to recovery from your illness," said he. "
Who acts: royal highness, illness · What happens: be, say · To what, where: high road · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (royal highness, illness), 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 | _ | 10 road | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 highness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 highness | amod |
| 4 | highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 road | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 road | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 road | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 road | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 road | amod |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 recovery | case |
| 12 | recovery | recovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 road | nmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 illness | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 illness | nmod:poss |
| 15 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 recovery | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 road | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | must | Your royal highness | the high road | to recovery from your illness | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | illness | 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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