Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 107
"I can see a well set-up human figure quite well," said the Barbel. "
Who acts: Barbel · What happens: see, say · To what, where: set human figure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbel), 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 | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 figure | det |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 figure | advmod |
| 7 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 figure | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 up | punct |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound |
| 10 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 figure | amod |
| 11 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 well | advmod |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 see | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Barbel | det |
| 18 | Barbel | Barbel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | can | the Barbel = barbel | a set human figure | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Barbel | 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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