Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 118
“I am a Bachelor in Theologia,” answered the gentleman with a stiff reverence.
Who acts: Bachelor · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: Bachelor, Theologia, gentleman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bachelor), 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 | _ | 5 Bachelor | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Bachelor | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Bachelor | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Bachelor | det |
| 5 | Bachelor | bachelor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Theologia | case |
| 7 | Theologia | Theologia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Bachelor | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bachelor | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bachelor | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gentleman | det |
| 12 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 reverence | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 reverence | det |
| 15 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 reverence | amod |
| 16 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gentleman | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a Bachelor = bachelor | a Bachelor | Theologia | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | a Bachelor | the gentleman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent gentleman=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: «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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