Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 28

The swallow could describe all that very well, but, "Self is the man," she said. "

Who acts: swallow, Self, man · What happens: describe, be, say · To what, where: that, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallow, Self, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 swallow	det
2	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describe	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 describe	aux
4	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 that	det:predet
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 describe	obj
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 well	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 describe	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 man	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 man	punct
13	Self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 man	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 man	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 man	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 man	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 describe	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 describe	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 describe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe	could	the swallow	that	well property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	Self	the man		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the man			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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