Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 24
"God grant you all that is brightest and best!" exclaimed Babette.
Who acts: God, you, Babette · What happens: grant, be, exclaim · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, 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 | _ | 3 grant | punct |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grant | nsubj |
| 3 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 brightest | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 brightest | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 brightest | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 brightest | cop |
| 8 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 grant | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 best | cc |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 brightest | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 grant | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 grant | punct |
| 13 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 exclaimed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant in a quote | present | God | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | exclaim speech: express | past | Babette | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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