Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 62
"But that is superbe," said the princess passing by. "
Who acts: superbe, princess · What happens: be, say, pass by · To what, where: superbe, princess · 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 (superbe, princess), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 superbe | det |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 superbe | cop |
| 5 | superbe | superbe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 superbe | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 superbe | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 princess | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 passing | fixed |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that superbe | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | that superbe | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pass by | gerund | the princess not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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