Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 50
"Oh," said Jack the Dullard, "I can hardly tell you.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: say, tell · To what, where: you · 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 (Jack), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Dullard | det |
| 8 | Dullard | Dullard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Jack | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | aux |
| 13 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 14 tell | advmod |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | iobj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | Jack | you | hardly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=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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