Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 88
"You may be quite sure of that," said the crow from the forest.
Who acts: You, crow · What happens: be, say · 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, crow), 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 sure | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 sure | advmod |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 sure | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crow | det |
| 13 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crow | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | may | You | of that; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the crow | 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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