Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 58
Is it not clever?" said Kay, "and much more interesting than looking at real flowers.
Who acts: snow, Kay · What happens: not be, say, be, look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, Kay), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 clever | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 clever | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 clever | advmod |
| 4 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 clever | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 clever | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 clever | parataxis |
| 8 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 clever | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 clever | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 interesting | cc |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 interesting | advmod |
| 14 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clever | conj |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 looking | mark |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 interesting | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 flowers | case |
| 18 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 flowers | amod |
| 19 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 looking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | snow | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Kay | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | snow not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | look | gerund | snow not said here | at real flowers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme |
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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