Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 61
"'Yet you could not reach the young eagle,' said the miller, laughing. '
Who acts: you · What happens: not reach, say, laugh · To what, where: young eagle, miller · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 reach | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 reach | punct |
| 3 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 7 reach | cc |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 reach | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 reach | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 reach | advmod |
| 7 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eagle | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eagle | amod |
| 10 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reach | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reach | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 miller | det |
| 15 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laughing | punct |
| 17 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 said | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reach | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reach in a quote | could | you | the young eagle | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | you not said here | the miller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent miller=Topic | ||||
| 3 | laugh in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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