Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 17

"Oh, it is such a splendid and precious thing, that I cannot describe it," said the Mother-Toad. "

Who acts: jewel, Mother · What happens: be, not describe, say · To what, where: splendid thing, jewel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jewel, Mother), 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	_	11 thing	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	11 thing	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thing	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	cop
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 thing	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 thing	det
8	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 precious	cc
10	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 splendid	conj
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 describe	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 describe	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 describe	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 describe	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 describe	advmod
17	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thing	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 describe	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 describe	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 describe	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Mother	det
23	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obj
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Toad	punct
25	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Mother	appos
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 Toad	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	jewel	such splendid thing	tree rules
2	not describe in a quote	can	the Mother = mother	jewel	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Mother		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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