Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 88
"What a beautiful thought!" exclaimed the papa stork immediately.
Who acts: beautiful thought · What happens: thought, exclaim · To what, where: papa stork · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful thought), 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 thought | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thought | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thought | amod |
| 5 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stork | det |
| 10 | papa | papa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stork | compound |
| 11 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 12 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 8 exclaimed | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thought in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | a beautiful thought | the papa stork | immediately property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stork=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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