Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 44
"Ah, you learn to long for the drum-skin, drum, dum, dum!" said the Drum.
Who acts: you, Drum · What happens: learn, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Drum), 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 learn | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 learn | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 learn | nsubj |
| 5 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 long | mark |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 learn | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 skin | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 skin | det |
| 10 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skin | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 drum | punct |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 learn | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drum | punct |
| 14 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skin | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dum | punct |
| 16 | dum | dum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skin | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dum | punct |
| 18 | dum | dum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skin | conj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 learn | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 learn | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Drum | det |
| 23 | Drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn in a quote | present | you | for the drum skin and drum and dum and dum | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent long=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Drum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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