Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 40
"The book may be very good," said Rudy; "but that finely combed fellow who gave it to you is not worth much."
Who acts: book, Rudy · What happens: be, say, comb, give, not be · To what, where: that, Englishman, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (book, 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 good | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 book | det |
| 3 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 good | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 good | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 good | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 good | advmod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 combed | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 combed | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 combed | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 combed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 17 combed | advmod |
| 17 | combed | comb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 gave | advcl |
| 18 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 combed | xcomp |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 worth | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | obl |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 worth | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 worth | advmod |
| 26 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 27 | much | much | ADV | _ | 26 worth | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 worth | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | may | the book | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Rudy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | comb in a quote | participle · passive | that | fellow, finely property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | past | Englishman | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | not is in a quote | present | worth 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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