Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 8
"I presume you are a girdle," said the shirt-collar, "a sort of under girdle.
Who acts: shirt collar, you · What happens: presume, be, say, sort · To what, where: girdle · 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, 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 | _ | 3 presume | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 presume | nsubj |
| 3 | presume | presume | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 girdle | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 girdle | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 girdle | det |
| 7 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 presume | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 presume | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 presume | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 collar | det |
| 12 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 collar | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 shirt | punct |
| 14 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sort | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 sort | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sort | det |
| 18 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 collar | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 girdle | case |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 girdle | case |
| 21 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sort | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | presume in a quote | infinitive | the shirt collar and a sort of girdle = collar | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | you | a girdle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the shirt collar and a sort of girdle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sort in a quote | girdle | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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