Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 84
"Ho! ho!" said the old goblin, "is that what she means?
Who acts: Ho ho, ho · What happens: say, be · To what, where: old goblin · 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 (Ho ho, ho), 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 ho | punct |
| 2 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ho | compound |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ho | punct |
| 4 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 ho | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ho | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 goblin | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 goblin | amod |
| 10 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 means | cop |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 means | mark |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 means | obj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 means | nsubj |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Ho ho | the old goblin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | ho | mean property | tree rules |
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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