Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 57
"'What a pretty commencement!' said the plates; 'we shall all like that story, I am sure.'
Who acts: pretty commencement, we · What happens: say, be · To what, where: plates · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty commencement, we), 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 | _ | 6 commencement | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 commencement | punct |
| 3 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 6 commencement | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 commencement | det |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 commencement | amod |
| 6 | commencement | commencement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 commencement | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 commencement | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 plates | det |
| 11 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 sure | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 sure | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 sure | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 sure | aux |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 sure | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 story | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 story | det |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sure | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 story | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 sure | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 sure | cop |
| 23 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | what pretty commencement | the plates | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent plate=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | shall | we | like that story; all, sure 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.
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