Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 34
"You are detestable!" exclaimed Babette, bursting into tears. "
Who acts: You, Babette · What happens: be, exclaim, burst · To what, where: tears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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 detestable | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 detestable | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 detestable | cop |
| 4 | detestable | detestable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 detestable | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 detestable | punct |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 detestable | conj |
| 8 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 exclaimed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bursting | punct |
| 10 | bursting | burst | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 exclaimed | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 tears | case |
| 12 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bursting | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 detestable | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 detestable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | detestable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Babette | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | burst | gerund | Babette not said here | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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