Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 75
"'I certainly am vexed,' said the basket; 'inwardly vexed, more than any one can imagine.
Who acts: one · What happens: vex, say, imagine · To what, where: I, basket · 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 (one), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 vexed | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 vexed | nsubj |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 vexed | advmod |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 vexed | aux:pass |
| 6 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 vexed | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 vexed | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 basket | det |
| 11 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 vexed | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 vexed | punct |
| 14 | inwardly | inwardly | ADV | _ | 15 vexed | advmod |
| 15 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 more | punct |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 vexed | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 22 imagine | mark |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 imagine | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 imagine | aux |
| 22 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 more | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex in a quote | present · passive | I | certainly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the basket | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | vex in a quote | participle | inwardly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | imagine in a quote | can | any one | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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