Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 11
She said this merrily, for she was the best of the hens, and, moreover, as had been said, very respectable.
Who acts: sun · What happens: say, be · To what, where: this · 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 (sun), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 said | obj |
| 4 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 2 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 best | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 best | case |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 best | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 best | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 best | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 said | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hens | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hens | det |
| 13 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 best | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 and | punct |
| 17 | moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 22 said | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 moreover | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 said | mark |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 said | aux:pass |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 said | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 respectable | punct |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 respectable | advmod |
| 25 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 said | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | sun | this | merrily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past | sun | of the hens; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | moreover property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
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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