Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 49
"What are you saying up there?" cried Gerda. "
Who acts: you, saying · What happens: say up, cry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, saying), 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 | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 saying | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 saying | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 saying | nsubj |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cried | csubj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 saying | compound:prt |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 saying | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | flat |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say up speech: assert in a quote | present · progressive | you | there | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | saying | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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