Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 37

"Why, one can see that easily enough," said the other. "

Who acts: one, other · What happens: see, say · To what, where: that · 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 (one, other), 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	_	6 see	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 see	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
4	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 see	obj
8	easily	easily	ADV	_	6 see	advmod
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 see	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 other	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	nsubj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	can	one	that				easily, enough property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the other						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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