Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 27
Oh!" exclaimed the shirt-collar, "what a first-rate dancer you would make; you can stretch out your leg so well.
Who acts: rate dancer, you · What happens: exclaim, make, stretch out · To what, where: shirt collar, leg
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 (rate dancer, you), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 exclaimed | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 exclaimed | punct |
| 4 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 collar | det |
| 6 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 collar | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 shirt | punct |
| 8 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 exclaimed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 exclaimed | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dancer | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 rate | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 first | punct |
| 15 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dancer | compound |
| 16 | dancer | dancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | nsubj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 make | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | aux |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 stretch | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 stretch | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 stretch | aux |
| 23 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 exclaimed | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 stretch | compound:prt |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 leg | nmod:poss |
| 26 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stretch | obj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 well | advmod |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 stretch | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | the shirt collar | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent collar=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | would | a rate dancer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | stretch out | can | you | your leg | well property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
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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