Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 18
"Am I looking at my own image in the deep water?" said the mother.
Who acts: mother, my · What happens: look, say, image · To what, where: deep water · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, my), 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 | _ | 4 looking | punct |
| 2 | Am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 image | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 image | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 image | amod |
| 8 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 water | amod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 image | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mother | det |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present · progressive | the mother = mother | at my own image in the deep water | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at image=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | image in a quote | my | the deep water | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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