Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 11
"You must get her first," said the miller, laughing; and Babette thought this a very good sign.
Who acts: You, miller, Babette · What happens: get, say, laugh, think · To what, where: miller, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, miller, Babette), 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 get | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 get | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 miller | det |
| 11 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laughing | punct |
| 13 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 said | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thought | cc |
| 16 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 thought | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sign | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 good | advmod |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sign | amod |
| 22 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thought | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | must | You | miller | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the miller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | the miller not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Babette | this | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme sign=Attribute |
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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