Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 194
"But why did you come up again," said Great Claus, "if it was all so beautiful down there?
Who acts: you, Great, fish · What happens: come up, say, be · 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 (you, Great, fish), 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 | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 come | cc |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 come | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Great | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beautiful | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 beautiful | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 beautiful | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beautiful | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 beautiful | cop |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 there | advmod |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up in a quote | past · do-support | you | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Great | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | fish | there | all, beautiful property | 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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