Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 29
Yes, yes, you may believe me, it is all as true as I sit here," said the crow. "
Who acts: you, notice, I · What happens: believe, be, sit, say · To what, where: me, crow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, notice, I), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 believe | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 believe | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yes | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 believe | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 believe | aux |
| 7 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 believe | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 true | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 true | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 true | cop |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 true | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 true | advmod |
| 14 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 said | ccomp |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 sit | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 sit | nsubj |
| 17 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 true | advcl |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 sit | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sit | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 true | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 believe | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 crow | det |
| 23 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 believe | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | may | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | notice | all, true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit | present | I | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the crow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent crow=Topic |
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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