Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 1

"That was a terrible affair!" said a hen, and in a quarter of the town, too, where it had not taken place. "

Who acts: That, terrible affair · What happens: be, say, not take · To what, where: terrible affair, hen, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, terrible affair), 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	_	6 affair	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 affair	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 affair	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 affair	det
5	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 affair	amod
6	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 affair	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 affair	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hen	det
11	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 quarter	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 quarter	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 quarter	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 quarter	det
16	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hen	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 town	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 town	det
19	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 quarter	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 too	punct
21	too	too	ADV	_	9 said	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 taken	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 taken	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 taken	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 taken	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 taken	advmod
27	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 taken	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 taken	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	That	a terrible affair	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	a terrible affair	a hen	tree rules
3	not take	past · perfect · passive		it	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination

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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