Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 113
"The boys pleased me better," said the earth-worm.
Who acts: earth worm · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth worm), 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 | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boys | det |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pleased | nsubj |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 pleased | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 worm | det |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 worm | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 earth | punct |
| 13 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the earth worm | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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