Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 34
"What you have been carving is very beautiful, grandfather," said she. "
Who acts: you, daughter · What happens: carve, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, daughter), 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 | _ | 6 carving | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 carving | obj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 carving | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 carving | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 carving | aux |
| 6 | carving | carve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 beautiful | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 beautiful | advmod |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 carving | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grandfather | punct |
| 11 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beautiful | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 carving | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 carving | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | you | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you not said here | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | daughter | 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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