Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 105
"Goodness me! where am I?" said he.
Who acts: recollection · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (recollection), 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 | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 2 | Goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 me | compound |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 me | conj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 where | cop |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 where | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | recollection | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | recollection | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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