Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 120
"So, at any rate, I have seen you, you pretty gold-fishes," she said. "
Who acts: swarm, you · What happens: see, pretty, say · To what, where: you, rate, gold fishes · 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 (swarm, you), 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 | _ | 10 seen | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 seen | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 So | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 rate | case |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 rate | det |
| 6 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rate | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 said | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 seen | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pretty | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 pretty | nsubj |
| 14 | pretty | pretty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | conj |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fishes | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 gold | punct |
| 17 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pretty | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pretty | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present · perfect | swarm | you | any rate | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | pretty in a quote | present | you | gold fishes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | swarm | 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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