Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 107
"You are the right sort to dance with, certainly," said she, turning her back upon him.
Who acts: You · What happens: be, dance, say, turn back · To what, where: right sort, sort · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 sort | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 sort | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sort | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sort | det |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sort | amod |
| 6 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 dance | mark |
| 8 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sort | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 dance | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 certainly | punct |
| 11 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 dance | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sort | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sort | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turning | punct |
| 17 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 turning | obj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 turning | advmod |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 turning | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | the right sort | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dance in a quote | to-infinitive | certainly property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | turn back | gerund | sort | upon knocking | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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