Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 67
Yes; it was not a very polite epistle from the manager of a theatre, in which both pieces were flatly refused.
Who acts: letter · What happens: not be, refuse · To what, where: polite epistle, manager, pieces
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 epistle | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 epistle | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 epistle | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 epistle | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 epistle | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 polite | advmod |
| 8 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 epistle | amod |
| 9 | epistle | epistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 manager | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 manager | det |
| 12 | manager | manager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 epistle | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 theatre | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 theatre | det |
| 15 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 manager | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 refused | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 refused | obl |
| 19 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 pieces | det |
| 20 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 refused | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 refused | aux:pass |
| 22 | flatly | flatly | ADV | _ | 23 refused | advmod |
| 23 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 epistle | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 epistle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | letter | a polite epistle | the manager of a theatre | tree rules | |||
| 2 | refuse | past · passive | both pieces | a polite epistle | flatly property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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