Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 130
“No,” answered the theologian of the time of King Hans: “that book is not written by a Heiberg, but was imprinted by Godfrey von Gehmen.”
Who acts: theologian, Heiberg, Godfrey · What happens: answer, not write, imprint · To what, where: book · 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 (theologian, Heiberg, Godfrey), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 theologian | det |
| 7 | theologian | theologian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 theologian | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Hans | case |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Hans | compound |
| 13 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 time | nmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 written | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 written | punct |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 book | det |
| 17 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 written | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 written | aux:pass |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 written | advmod |
| 20 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 Heiberg | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 Heiberg | det |
| 23 | Heiberg | Heiberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 written | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 imprinted | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 imprinted | cc |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 imprinted | aux:pass |
| 27 | imprinted | imprint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 answered | conj |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 Godfrey | case |
| 29 | Godfrey | Godfrey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 imprinted | obl:agent |
| 30 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 29 Godfrey | flat |
| 31 | Gehmen | Gehmen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Godfrey | flat |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the theologian of the time of King Hans | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not write in a quote | present · passive | a Heiberg | that book | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | imprint in a quote | past · passive | Godfrey | vn image_impression-25.1 «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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