The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 49
‘That is exactly what I do mean,’ replied Hans.
Who acts: That, I · What happens: be, mean, reply · To what, where: Hans
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, I), 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 | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 what | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 what | advmod |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 mean | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | aux |
| 8 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | exactly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present · do-support | I | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Hans | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hans=Topic |
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: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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