Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 66
"This evening," they all exclaimed, "how bright it will be!" "
Who acts: Dolls · What happens: exclaim, be · 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 (Dolls), 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 | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 they | det |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bright | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 bright | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 bright | advmod |
| 12 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 be | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 be | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bright | cop |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | participle | Dolls = doll | evening | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | bright 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/66/