Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 75

"Ah, yes, you are always so polite," said mamma, with a smile; and Kaela silently pressed his hand, all soiled as it was with the clay.

Who acts: you, mamma, Kaela, clay · What happens: be, say, press, soil · To what, where: hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mamma, Kaela, clay), 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 polite	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	10 polite	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Ah	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 polite	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 polite	cop
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 polite	advmod
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 polite	advmod
10	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 polite	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 polite	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 smile	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 smile	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 smile	det
18	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mamma	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 pressed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Kaela	cc
21	Kaela	Kaela	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 pressed	nsubj
22	silently	silently	ADV	_	23 pressed	advmod
23	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hand	nmod:poss
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pressed	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 soiled	punct
27	all	all	ADV	_	28 soiled	advmod
28	soiled	soil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 pressed	conj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 clay	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 clay	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 clay	cop
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 clay	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 clay	det
34	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 soiled	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	you		always, polite property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	mamma and a smile			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	press	past	Kaela	smile's hand	silently property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	soil	participle	Kaela not said here		all property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	clay		with the clay	tree rules

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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