Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 35
"Yes; but what do you think it is?" said Kribble-Krabble. "
Who acts: you, maiden, Kribble · What happens: think, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, maiden, Kribble), 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 | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 think | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 think | cc |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 think | obj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 is | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Kribble | Kribble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Krabble | punct |
| 16 | Krabble | Krabble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Kribble | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | maiden | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Kribble | 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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