Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 46
"No let it stay," said the other boy, "it looks so pretty."
Who acts: much, other boy · What happens: let, stay, say, look · To what, where: much · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much, other boy), 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 let | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 let | discourse |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | 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 | 11 boy | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boy | amod |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looks | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 looks | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looks | nsubj |
| 15 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 pretty | advmod |
| 17 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 15 looks | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 looks | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | much | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stay in a quote | infinitive | much not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the other boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | look in a quote | present | much | pretty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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