Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 29
"Oh how capital," said little Ida, clapping her hands. "
Who acts: little Ida · What happens: say, clap · To what, where: hands · 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 (little Ida), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 capital | advmod |
| 4 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Ida | amod |
| 9 | Ida | Ida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clapping | punct |
| 11 | clapping | clap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 clapping | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | little Ida | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | clap | gerund | little Ida not said here | Ida's hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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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