Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 11
"Just half as high as my top-boots," replied the boy; "but then I must stand in the deepest holes."
Who acts: boy · What happens: reply, stand · To what, where: deepest holes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | _ | 5 high | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 half | advmod |
| 3 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 high | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 high | advmod |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 boots | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 boots | nmod:poss |
| 8 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 boots | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 top | punct |
| 10 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 high | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 stand | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 but | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 stand | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 stand | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 stand | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 stand | aux |
| 22 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 replied | ccomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 holes | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 holes | det |
| 25 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 holes | amod |
| 26 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stand | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 stand | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the boy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stand in a quote | must | the boy = boy | the deepest holes | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hole=Location |
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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