Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 76
"The black wretch!" said Anne Lisbeth, "he will end by frightening me today."
Who acts: black wretch, wretch · What happens: say, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black wretch, wretch), 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 | _ | 4 wretch | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wretch | det |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wretch | amod |
| 4 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 wretch | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wretch | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | Lisbeth | Lisbeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Anne | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 end | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 end | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 end | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 end | aux |
| 14 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 frightening | case |
| 16 | frightening | frightening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 end | xcomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 frightening | iobj |
| 18 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 frightening | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 end | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the black wretch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | end in a quote | future | wretch | frightening property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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