Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 1

"What strange creatures human beings are," said the parlor-cat to the kitchen-cat; "Babette and Rudy have fallen out with each other.

Who acts: strange creatures, parlor cat, Babette · What happens: be, say, fall out · To what, where: kitchen cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At 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 (strange creatures, parlor cat, 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	_	10 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 are	obj
3	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creatures	amod
4	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 are	nsubj
5	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beings	amod
6	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 creatures	conj
7	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 are	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 are	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cat	det
12	parlor	parlor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cat	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 parlor	punct
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 cat	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cat	det
17	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cat	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 kitchen	punct
19	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 fallen	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Babette	punct
22	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 fallen	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Rudy	cc
24	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Babette	conj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 fallen	aux
26	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 fallen	compound:prt
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 each	case
29	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	26 fallen	obl
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 each	fixed
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	does in a quote	present	strange creatures and human beings			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the parlor cat	the kitchen cat		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to cat=Recipient clause=Topic
3	fall out in a quote	present · perfect	Babette and Rudy		with each	vn occur-48.3 «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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