Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 7
"Yes indeed, they can," replied the student. "
Who acts: student · What happens: reply
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 (student), 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 | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 can | discourse |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 2 Yes | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 can | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 can | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 can | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 student | det |
| 11 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the student | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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