Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 87

"What a capital story," said the queen, "I feel as if I were really in the kitchen, and could see the matches; yes, you shall marry our daughter."

Who acts: queen, you · What happens: say, feel, be, see, marry · To what, where: matches, daughter · 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 (queen, you), 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	_	5 story	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 story	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	compound
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 story	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 story	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 queen	det
10	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 feel	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 feel	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 feel	nsubj
14	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
15	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	22 kitchen	case
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 as	fixed
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 kitchen	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 kitchen	cop
19	really	really	ADV	_	22 kitchen	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 kitchen	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 kitchen	det
22	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feel	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 see	cc
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 see	aux
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 feel	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 matches	det
28	matches	match	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 see	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 marry	punct
30	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	34 marry	discourse
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 yes	punct
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 marry	nsubj
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 marry	aux
34	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
35	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 daughter	nmod:poss
36	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 marry	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 marry	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	feel in a quote	present	the queen = queen			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is in a quote	past	the queen = queen		as the kitchen	tree rules
4	see in a quote	could	the queen = queen not said here	the matches		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer match=Stimulus
5	marry in a quote	shall	you	our daughter		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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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