Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 108
"It is really a splendid town, like none other that I have ever seen," said Rudy to himself.
Who acts: cross, Rudy · What happens: be, see, say · To what, where: splendid town, Rudy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cross, Rudy), 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 | _ | 7 town | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 town | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 town | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 town | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 6 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 town | amod |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 none | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 none | case |
| 10 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 7 town | conj |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 none | amod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 seen | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 seen | advmod |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 other | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 town | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 town | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 himself | case |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 said | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | cross | a splendid town | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · perfect | Rudy | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Rudy | Rudy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
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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