Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 30
Yes, and the clergyman's wife noticed me, and said I was the best piece of linen in the whole parish.
Who acts: wife, I · What happens: notice, say, be · To what, where: me, best piece, whole parish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, I), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 noticed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 noticed | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 noticed | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clergyman | det |
| 5 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 clergyman | case |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 noticed | nsubj |
| 8 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 noticed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 noticed | parataxis |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 piece | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 piece | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 piece | det |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 piece | amod |
| 17 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 linen | case |
| 19 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 piece | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 parish | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 parish | det |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 parish | amod |
| 23 | parish | parish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 piece | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | the clergyman's wife | me | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | I | the best piece | the whole parish | of linen | 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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