Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 168
"How I left the world?" she replied; "why, I can scarcely tell you.
Who acts: flower · What happens: leave, reply, tell · To what, where: world, you · 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 (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 | _ | 4 left | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 left | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 13 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 tell | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 why | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | aux |
| 17 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 18 tell | advmod |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | past | flower | the world | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | flower | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | flower | you | scarcely property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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