Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 33
"I shall be obliged to propose to the hair-brush," thought the shirt collar; so he remarked one day, "It is wonderful what beautiful hair you have, my little lady.
Who acts: shirt collar, collar, estate, you · What happens: oblige, propose, think, remark, be, have · To what, where: shirt collar, hair brush, little lady, beautiful hair · 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 (shirt collar, collar, estate, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 obliged | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 obliged | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 obliged | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 obliged | aux:pass |
| 5 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 propose | mark |
| 7 | propose | propose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 obliged | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 brush | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brush | det |
| 10 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brush | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 hair | punct |
| 12 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 propose | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 obliged | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 collar | det |
| 17 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 collar | compound |
| 18 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 remarked | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 remarked | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 remarked | nsubj |
| 22 | remarked | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 obliged | conj |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 day | nummod |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 remarked | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wonderful | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 wonderful | punct |
| 27 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 wonderful | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 wonderful | cop |
| 29 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 remarked | conj |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 wonderful | obj |
| 31 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 hair | amod |
| 32 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 have | obj |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 have | nsubj |
| 34 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 what | acl:relcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 lady | punct |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 lady | nmod:poss |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 lady | amod |
| 38 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 remarked | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige in a quote | shall · passive | the shirt collar = collar | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | propose in a quote | to-infinitive | the hair brush | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brush=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the shirt collar | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | remark speech: assert | past | collar | my little lady | day | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | estate | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | you | beautiful hair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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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