Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 92

"That is rather too high a price," said the old woman, nodding her head quite strangely.

Who acts: That, old woman · What happens: be, say, nod · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, old woman), 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 high	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 high	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 high	cop
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 high	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 high	advmod
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 price	det
8	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 high	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 high	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 high	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nodding	punct
16	nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nodding	obj
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 strangely	advmod
20	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	16 nodding	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That		high property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the old woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	nod	gerund	the old woman not said here	woman's head	strangely property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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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