Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 40
"It's a drop of puddle water!" said Kribble-Krabble.
Who acts: city, drop · What happens: be, say · To what, where: drop · 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 (city, drop), 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 drop | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drop | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 drop | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 drop | det |
| 5 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | puddle | puddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 water | compound |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drop | nmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 drop | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 drop | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Kribble | Kribble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Kribble | punct |
| 14 | Krabble | Krabble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Kribble | flat |
| 15 | . | . | 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 | city | a drop | of puddle water | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | a drop | 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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