Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 120
"What splendid stories you can relate," said the little mice.
Who acts: splendid stories, little mice · What happens: relate, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (splendid stories, little mice), 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 | _ | 7 relate | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 relate | obj |
| 3 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stories | amod |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 relate | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 relate | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 relate | aux |
| 7 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 relate | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 relate | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mice | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mice | amod |
| 13 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate in a quote | can | splendid stories | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the little mice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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