Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 3
Upon my word," said the shirt-collar, "I have never seen anything so slim and delicate, so neat and soft before.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: say, not see, word · 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 (I, my), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 word | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 word | nmod:poss |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 word | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 word | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 collar | det |
| 8 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 collar | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 shirt | punct |
| 10 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 anything | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 seen | advmod |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 anything | amod |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 collar | conj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 slim | advmod |
| 19 | slim | slim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 anything | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 delicate | cc |
| 21 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 slim | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 neat | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 neat | advmod |
| 24 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 soft | cc |
| 26 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 neat | conj |
| 27 | before | before | ADV | _ | 24 neat | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the shirt collar | upon my word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent collar=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not see | present · perfect | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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