Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 17
The defendant replied with satire as keen, while the audience laughed, and gave their verdict.
Who acts: defendant · What happens: reply, laugh, give · To what, where: defendant, verdict
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (defendant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 defendant | det |
| 2 | defendant | defendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 defendant | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 satire | case |
| 5 | satire | satire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | obl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 keen | case |
| 7 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 replied | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laughed | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 laughed | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 audience | det |
| 11 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laughed | nsubj |
| 12 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 laughed | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 verdict | nmod:poss |
| 17 | verdict | verdict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | the defendant not said here | with satire; as keen | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with satire=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | the defendant | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the defendant not said here | song's verdict | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verdict=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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