Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 11
"Oh, when any one is as beautiful as you are," said the shirt-collar, "is not that encouragement enough?"
Who acts: one, you, shirt collar, beautiful · What happens: be, say, not be · To what, where: encouragement · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, you, shirt collar, beautiful), 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 beautiful | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 beautiful | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 beautiful | mark |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beautiful | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 beautiful | cop |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 beautiful | advmod |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 encouragement | nsubj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 are | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 are | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 beautiful | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 are | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 beautiful | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 beautiful | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 collar | det |
| 17 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 collar | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 shirt | punct |
| 19 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beautiful | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 beautiful | punct |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 encouragement | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 encouragement | advmod |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 encouragement | det |
| 25 | encouragement | encouragement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 26 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 25 encouragement | advmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 encouragement | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 encouragement | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | any one | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the shirt collar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | beautiful | that encouragement | enough property | 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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