Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 3
"That is your opinion, is it?" said the fingers, as they seized her round the body.
Who acts: That, opinion, fingers · What happens: be, say, seize · To what, where: opinion, fingers, needle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, opinion, fingers), 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 | _ | 5 opinion | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 opinion | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 opinion | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 5 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 opinion | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 it | cop |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 opinion | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 opinion | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 opinion | 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 | 13 fingers | det |
| 13 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seized | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 seized | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seized | nsubj |
| 17 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seized | obj |
| 19 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 body | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 body | det |
| 21 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seized | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | your opinion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | That not said here | opinion | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | your opinion | the fingers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent finger=Topic | ||||
| 4 | seize | past | fingers = finger | needle | round the body | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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