Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 74

"Why, then, you can't be a poet by Easter," said the wise woman.

Who acts: you, poet · What happens: not be, say · To what, where: poet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, poet), 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 Why	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 poet	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 poet	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 poet	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 poet	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 poet	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 poet	det
11	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 Easter	case
13	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 poet	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 poet	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 poet	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Why	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 woman	det
18	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	can	you	a poet				by Easter	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a poet				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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