Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 75
Felicita," she said, "what are you doing to the child?"
Who acts: Felicita, you · What happens: say, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Felicita, you), 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 | Felicita | Felicita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Felicita | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 doing | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 doing | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 doing | obj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 doing | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 doing | nsubj |
| 11 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 child | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 doing | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 doing | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Felicita | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | present · progressive | you | to the child | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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