Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 1
But his master only smiled, and said, "He is a young man, my dear, you know."
Who acts: master, you · What happens: smile, say, be, know · To what, where: young man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 smiled | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 master | nmod:poss |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smiled | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 smiled | advmod |
| 5 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smiled | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 man | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 man | punct |
| 11 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 man | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 man | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dear | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dear | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 smiled | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 smiled | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | his master | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | his master not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | master | a young man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | master not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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