Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 78
"No, indeed, I cannot," said Little Claus; "only think how much profit I could make out of this conjuror."
Who acts: Little · What happens: say, think, make out · To what, where: much profit, conjuror · 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 (Little), 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 | _ | 7 can | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 can | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 can | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 can | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 can | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 can | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 can | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Little | flat |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 think | advmod |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 profit | amod |
| 20 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 think | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 make | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 make | aux |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 think | ccomp |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 conjuror | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 conjuror | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 conjuror | det |
| 27 | conjuror | conjuror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Little | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | infinitive | much profit | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent profit=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make out in a quote | could | Little | this conjuror | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conjuror=Stimulus |
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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