Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 15
"'But he is a complete hack!' objected another of the gentlemen. '
Who acts: deal, complete hack · What happens: be, object · To what, where: complete hack, another
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deal, complete hack), 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 | _ | 11 objected | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 hack | punct |
| 3 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 hack | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hack | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hack | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hack | det |
| 7 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hack | amod |
| 8 | hack | hack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 objected | nsubj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 hack | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 hack | punct |
| 11 | objected | object | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 objected | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gentlemen | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gentlemen | det |
| 15 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 another | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 objected | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 objected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | deal | a complete hack | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | object speech: other in a quote | past | a complete hack | another | tree rules |
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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