Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 42
Well, now, this is a surprise; a glorious surprise too," said the paper. "
Who acts: this · What happens: be, say · To what, where: surprise, paper · 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 (this), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 surprise | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 surprise | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 surprise | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 surprise | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 surprise | det |
| 8 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 surprise | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 surprise | det |
| 11 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 surprise | amod |
| 12 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 surprise | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 too | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 surprise | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 paper | det |
| 18 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | a surprise | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the paper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent paper=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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