Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 4

"People say that I look exceedingly well," said the flax, "and that I am so fine and long that I shall make a beautiful piece of linen.

Who acts: People, flax · What happens: say, look, be, make · To what, where: beautiful piece · 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 (People, flax), 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	_	3 say	punct
2	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 look	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
7	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	6 look	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 look	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flax	det
13	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fine	cc
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 fine	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 fine	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 fine	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 fine	advmod
21	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 long	cc
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fine	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 make	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 make	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 make	aux
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 fine	csubj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 piece	det
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 piece	amod
30	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 linen	case
32	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 piece	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	People			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look in a quote	present	People		exceedingly, well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the flax			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	the flax = flax		fine property	tree rules
5	be in a quote		the flax = flax not said here			tree rules
6	make in a quote	shall	the flax = flax	a beautiful piece of linen		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Product

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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