Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 46
"Ah," she exclaimed, "here is a gilt top."
Who acts: servant · What happens: exclaim, be · To what, where: gilt top · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant), 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 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 exclaimed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 top | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 here | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 here | punct |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 exclaimed | advmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 top | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 top | det |
| 12 | gilt | gilt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 top | amod |
| 13 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 top | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 top | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | servant | here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a gilt top | 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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