Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 8

But the garter was so bashful, so modest, and thought it was a strange question to answer.

Who acts: garter, name · What happens: be, think, answer · To what, where: strange question · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garter, name), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 bashful	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 garter	det
3	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bashful	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bashful	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 bashful	advmod
6	bashful	bashful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 modest	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 modest	advmod
9	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bashful	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bashful	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 question	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 question	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 question	det
16	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 question	amod
17	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 answer	mark
19	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 question	acl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bashful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the garter		bashful property	tree rules
2	be		the garter not said here			tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	the garter not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	name	a strange question		tree rules
5	answer speech: assert	to-infinitive	the garter not said here			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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