Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 63
"It is dreadfully hot here!" observed the first brother.
Who acts: room, hot · What happens: be, observe · To what, where: first brother
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 (room, hot), 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 hot | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hot | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hot | cop |
| 4 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 5 hot | advmod |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 observed | nsubj |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 hot | advmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 hot | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hot | punct |
| 9 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brother | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 brother | amod |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 observed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | room | here | dreadfully, hot property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | observe | past | hot | the first brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brother=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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