Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 228
"Now, really, this is too ridiculous," said the learned man. "
Who acts: this, learned man · What happens: be, say, learn · 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 (this, learned man), 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 | _ | 9 ridiculous | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 ridiculous | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 ridiculous | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 really | punct |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 ridiculous | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ridiculous | cop |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 ridiculous | advmod |
| 9 | ridiculous | ridiculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ridiculous | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 ridiculous | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | this | now | ridiculous property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the learned man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: 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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