Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 12
"What a long time it takes! what a long time it takes!" said the Flower. "
Who acts: it, Flower · What happens: take, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Flower), 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 | _ | 7 takes | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 time | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 takes | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 takes | nsubj |
| 7 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 takes | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 takes | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 takes | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 takes | nsubj |
| 14 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 takes | advcl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 takes | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 takes | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 takes | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Flower | det |
| 19 | Flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 takes | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | present | it | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | present | it | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the Flower | 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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