Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 9
Those are glorious trees!' said the first. '
Who acts: glorious trees · What happens: be, say · To what, where: glorious trees, first · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glorious trees), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 trees | det |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 trees | cop |
| 3 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trees | amod |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 trees | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 trees | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 first | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 said | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that glorious trees | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | that glorious trees | the first | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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