Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 25
“Do you seriously believe it?” replied Care, in a severe tone of reproach.
Who acts: you, Care · What happens: believe, reply, intonate · To what, where: property, severe tone, reproach · 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 (you, Care), 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 believe | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 believe | ccomp |
| 10 | Care | Care | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tone | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tone | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tone | det |
| 14 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tone | amod |
| 15 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 reproach | case |
| 17 | reproach | reproach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tone | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | present · do-support | you | property | a severe tone of reproach | seriously property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | participle | Care | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | intonate | reproach | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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