Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 14
"Ah, that is more than I can tell you.
Who acts: that, bad proposal · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, bad proposal), 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 | _ | 6 more | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 more | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 more | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 more | cop |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 tell | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | aux |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 more | advcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | that | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | all bad proposal = proposal | you | 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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