Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 167
"And I, poor fellow," said the drover, "I who am so old already, cannot get there."
Who acts: I · What happens: say, be, not get · To what, where: drover · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 I | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fellow | amod |
| 6 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 I | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 drover | det |
| 11 | drover | drover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 old | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 old | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 old | nsubj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 am | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 old | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 old | advmod |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | already | already | ADV | _ | 18 old | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 get | punct |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 get | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 get | advmod |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 old | conj |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 get | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | the drover | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent drover=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | I | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not get in a quote | can | I not said here | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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