Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 157
"The hen is a sensible woman," said the doll Bertha. "
Who acts: hen, sensible woman · What happens: be, say · To what, where: sensible woman, doll · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hen, sensible woman), 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 | _ | 7 woman | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hen | det |
| 3 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 woman | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 woman | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 woman | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 woman | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 doll | det |
| 12 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | Bertha | Bertha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 doll | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Bertha | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 doll | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the hen | a sensible woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a sensible woman | the doll | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent doll=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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