Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 36
"How good it is!" said he; "I have never before tasted such warm, invigorating wine."
Who acts: Maiden · What happens: be, say, taste, invigorate · To what, where: wine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maiden), 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 | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 good | advmod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 is | csubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 good | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tasted | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 tasted | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tasted | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tasted | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 before | advmod |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 tasted | advmod |
| 16 | tasted | taste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | conj |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 warm | amod |
| 18 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tasted | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 invigorating | punct |
| 20 | invigorating | invigorate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 21 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 invigorating | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 invigorating | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 invigorating | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | taste in a quote | present · perfect | Maiden | before, warm property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | invigorate in a quote | gerund | Maiden not said here | wine | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wine=Experiencer |
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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