Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 19
"Beautiful Flower!" said the Sunbeams, "how graceful and delicate you are!
Who acts: Beautiful Flower, you · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Sunbeams · 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 (Beautiful Flower, you), 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 | _ | 3 Flower | punct |
| 2 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Flower | amod |
| 3 | Flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Flower | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Flower | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sunbeams | det |
| 8 | Sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 graceful | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 graceful | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 graceful | advmod |
| 12 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 delicate | cc |
| 14 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 graceful | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 graceful | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 graceful | cop |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Beautiful Flower | the Sunbeams | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sunbeam=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | graceful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | you not said here | tree rules |
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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