Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 116
Well, that was a good exchange," replied the woman. "
Who acts: that, good exchange · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: good exchange, woman
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, good exchange), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 exchange | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 exchange | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 exchange | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 exchange | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 exchange | amod |
| 7 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 exchange | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 exchange | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | a good exchange | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | a good exchange | the woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic |
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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