Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 131

"Why, these are wonderful things that you're telling!" said the man. "

Who acts: these, wonderful things, man · What happens: be, tell, say · To what, where: wonderful things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, wonderful things, man), 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	11 telling	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 things	punct
4	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 things	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 things	cop
6	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 telling	nsubj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 telling	nsubj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 telling	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 telling	aux
11	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 telling	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 telling	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	these	wonderful things	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	wonderful things		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: express	past	the man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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