Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 75
"How can you talk in that manner?" said the learned man. "
Who acts: you, learned man · What happens: talk, say, learn · To what, where: manner · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 5 talk | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 talk | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 talk | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 talk | nsubj |
| 5 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 manner | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 manner | det |
| 8 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talk | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 talk | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 talk | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk in a quote | can | you | that manner | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the learned man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 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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