Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 7
"I must say once more," said the old woman, "that you are very lucky."
Who acts: old woman, you · What happens: say, be · 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 (old woman, 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 | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 say | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 woman | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 lucky | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 lucky | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 lucky | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 lucky | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 lucky | advmod |
| 19 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 lucky | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 lucky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | must | the old woman = woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | lucky property | tree rules |
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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