Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 44
"Dullard!" they cried, "that is only an old wooden shoe, and the upper part is missing into the bargain; are you going to give that also to the Princess?"
Who acts: Dullard, that, upper part, you · What happens: cry, be, miss, go, give · To what, where: old wooden shoe, bargain, that, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dullard, that, upper part, 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 | _ | 2 Dullard | punct |
| 2 | Dullard | Dullard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dullard | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dullard | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shoe | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 shoe | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 shoe | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 shoe | cop |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 shoe | advmod |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shoe | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shoe | amod |
| 14 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shoe | amod |
| 15 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 missing | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 missing | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 part | det |
| 19 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 part | amod |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 missing | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 missing | aux |
| 22 | missing | miss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cried | advcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 bargain | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bargain | det |
| 25 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 missing | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 going | punct |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 going | aux |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 going | nsubj |
| 29 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cried | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 give | mark |
| 31 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 going | xcomp |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 give | obj |
| 33 | also | also | ADV | _ | 36 Princess | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 Princess | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Princess | det |
| 36 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 give | obl |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 going | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Dullard | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | a old wooden shoe | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | miss in a quote | present · progressive | the upper part | the bargain | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | that | the Princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Theme to princess=Recipient |
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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