Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 70
Poor Rudy! we may well say.
Who acts: we · What happens: say · To what, where: Poor 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 (we), 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Rudy | amod |
| 2 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 say | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rudy | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 say | advmod |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | may | we | Poor Rudy | well property | 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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