Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 24
"I have never heard the name," replied the cavalier; "she has not been presented at court."
Who acts: cavalier · What happens: not hear, reply, not present · To what, where: name, nightingale, court · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cavalier), 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 heard | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 heard | advmod |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cavalier | det |
| 12 | cavalier | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 presented | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 presented | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 presented | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 presented | advmod |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 presented | aux:pass |
| 19 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 replied | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 court | case |
| 21 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 presented | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear in a quote | present · perfect | the cavalier = cavalier | the name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the cavalier | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not present in a quote | present · perfect · passive | nightingale | court | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «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: «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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