Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 67

"It is just the reverse of you," said the dog; "it's as black as a crow, and has a long neck and a brass knob; it eats firewood, so that fire spurts out of its mouth.

Who acts: stove, reverse, fire · What happens: be, say, have, eat, spurt · To what, where: reverse, dog, long neck, firewood, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stove, reverse, fire), 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	_	6 reverse	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reverse	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reverse	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 reverse	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reverse	det
6	reverse	reverse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 reverse	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reverse	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 reverse	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dog	det
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 black	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 black	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 black	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 black	cop
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 black	advmod
19	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	parataxis
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 crow	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 crow	det
22	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 black	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 has	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 has	cc
25	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 black	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 neck	det
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 neck	amod
28	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 has	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 knob	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 knob	det
31	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knob	compound
32	knob	knob	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 neck	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 eats	punct
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 eats	nsubj
35	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
36	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 eats	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 spurts	punct
38	so	so	SCONJ	_	41 spurts	mark
39	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 fire	det
40	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 spurts	nsubj
41	spurts	spurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 eats	conj
42	out	out	ADP	_	45 mouth	case
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 mouth	case
44	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 mouth	nmod:poss
45	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 spurts	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	stove	the reverse		of you	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the reverse	the dog			tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	stove			as a crow; black property	tree rules
4	have in a quote	present		a long neck and a brass knob			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
5	eat in a quote	present	stove	firewood			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firewood=Patient
6	spurt in a quote	present	that fire		stove's mouth		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme out mouth=Destination

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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