Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 81
"Ah, that's lucky!" exclaimed Jack the Dullard, "for I suppose you'll let me roast my crow at the same time?"
Who acts: that, Jack, you · What happens: be, exclaim, suppose, let, roast · To what, where: Jack, crow · 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 (that, Jack, 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 | _ | 6 lucky | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 lucky | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 lucky | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lucky | cop |
| 6 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 lucky | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 lucky | punct |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Dullard | det |
| 12 | Dullard | Dullard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Jack | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 suppose | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 suppose | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 suppose | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 suppose | nsubj |
| 17 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Jack | acl:relcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 let | nsubj |
| 19 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 let | aux |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 suppose | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 crow | nmod:poss |
| 24 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 roast | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 27 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 time | amod |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 roast | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | that | lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | suppose in a quote | present | Jack | Jack not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent jack=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | future | you | Jack | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | roast in a quote | infinitive | Jack not said here | my crow | time | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent crow=Patient |
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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