Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 7
Kay is dead and gone," said little Gerda.
Who acts: Kay, little Gerda · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, little Gerda), 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 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dead | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dead | cop |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gone | cc |
| 5 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dead | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dead | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dead | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Gerda | amod |
| 10 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Kay | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Kay not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | little Gerda | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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