Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 117

That means, as we fishes describe it, a kind of cuttle or ink-fish among men."

Who acts: That, we · What happens: mean, describe · To what, where: writer · 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 (That, we), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 describe	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 describe	mark
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 describe	nsubj
6	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 we	appos
7	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 describe	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kind	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 kind	det
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 describe	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 cuttle	case
13	cuttle	cuttle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kind	nmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 fish	cc
15	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fish	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 ink	punct
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cuttle	conj
18	among	among	ADP	_	19 men	case
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 describe	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	That						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	describe	present	we	writer				among men; a kind of cuttle or ink fish obl	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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