Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 62

My wife, you see, does not say much; she is short and abrupt in her manner; but she means well, for all that.

Who acts: you, wife · What happens: see, not say, be, mean · To what, where: wife, manner · 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 (you, wife), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wife	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wife	punct
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 say	advmod
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	much	much	ADV	_	9 say	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 short	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 short	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 short	cop
14	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 say	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 abrupt	cc
16	abrupt	abrupt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 short	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 manner	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 manner	nmod:poss
19	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 abrupt	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 means	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 means	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 means	nsubj
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	parataxis
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 means	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 that	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 that	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 that	det
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 means	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	you	My wife not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
2	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	My wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	wife			short property	tree rules
4	be		wife not said here		wife's manner		tree rules
5	mean	present	wife			for that; well property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for that=Attribute

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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