Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 68

"Now you shall also see my little earwigs," said a third and a fourth mother, "they are lovely little things, and highly amusing.

Who acts: you, third · What happens: see, say, be · To what, where: little earwigs, lovely little things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, third), 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 see	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 see	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 earwigs	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 earwigs	amod
9	earwigs	earwig	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 third	det
14	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mother	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mother	det
17	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 mother	amod
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 third	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 things	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 things	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 things	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 things	cop
23	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 things	amod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 things	amod
25	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 third	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 amusing	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 amusing	cc
28	highly	highly	ADV	_	29 amusing	advmod
29	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	see in a quote	shall	you	my little earwigs	now	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer earwig=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	a third and a fourth mother and lovely little things			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	third	lovely little things		tree rules

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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