Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 19
Mistress widow," said the shirt-collar, "little mistress widow, I feel quite warm.
Who acts: Mistress widow, I · What happens: say, feel · To what, where: shirt collar · 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 (Mistress widow, I), 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 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 widow | compound |
| 2 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 widow | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 widow | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 collar | det |
| 7 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 collar | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 shirt | punct |
| 9 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 widow | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 widow | punct |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 widow | amod |
| 13 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 widow | compound |
| 14 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 collar | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 feel | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 feel | nsubj |
| 17 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 warm | advmod |
| 19 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feel | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Mistress widow | the shirt collar and little mistress widow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | I | warm property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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