Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 55

"He is the handsomest of them all," said the mamma stork, as she watched him; "but I won't tell him so."

Who acts: good, handsomest, sign · What happens: be, say, watch, not tell · To what, where: mamma stork, good · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good, handsomest, sign), 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 handsomest	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 handsomest	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 handsomest	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 handsomest	det
5	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 said	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 handsomest	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 them	nmod:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 handsomest	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 handsomest	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stork	det
13	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stork	compound
14	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 watched	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 watched	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 watched	nsubj
18	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 watched	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 tell	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 tell	nsubj
24	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	aux
25	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 tell	advmod
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tell	iobj
28	so	so	ADV	_	26 tell	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	good			of wings = wing; handsome property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the handsomest	the mamma stork			tree rules
3	watch	past	sign	good			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	not tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the handsomest = handsome		good		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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