Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 109
"Delightful, indeed!" said the hen, "why you must be crazy!
Who acts: hen, you · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hen, you), 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 | _ | 2 Delightful | punct |
| 2 | Delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Delightful | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 2 Delightful | advmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Delightful | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Delightful | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hen | det |
| 9 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crazy | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 crazy | punct |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 crazy | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 crazy | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 crazy | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 crazy | cop |
| 16 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the hen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | must | you | crazy property | 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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