Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 4
Oh, you poor things," said the Lapland woman, "you have a long way to go yet.
Who acts: you, poor things · What happens: thing, say, have, go · To what, where: long way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, poor things), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 things | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 things | nsubj |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 things | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 things | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | Lapland | Lapland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 woman | compound |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 way | amod |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 way | acl |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thing | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | poor things | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | present | you | a long way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | you not said here | a long way not said here | yet | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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