Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 8
"Melancholy! what do you mean?" the little creature would always reply. "
Who acts: Melancholy, little creature · What happens: mean, reply · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Melancholy, little creature), 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 | _ | 2 Melancholy | punct |
| 2 | Melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Melancholy | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 mean | obj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mean | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 mean | nsubj |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 creature | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 creature | amod |
| 12 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reply | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 reply | aux |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 reply | advmod |
| 15 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 mean | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | Melancholy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | would | the little creature | always property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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