Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 58
"Very interesting, indeed," said the mistress of the household. "
Who acts: mistress · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress), 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 interesting | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 interesting | advmod |
| 3 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 interesting | punct |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 interesting | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 interesting | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 interesting | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mistress | det |
| 10 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 household | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 household | det |
| 13 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mistress | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mistress of the household | 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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