Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 7
Now," said he, "how droll things are in this world!
Who acts: man, droll things · What happens: say, be · To what, where: world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, droll things), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 world | advcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 droll | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 droll | advmod |
| 9 | droll | droll | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 world | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 world | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 world | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | man | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | droll things | this world | 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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