Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 29

Half of what she said is not true, but the other half gives us information enough.

Who acts: Amack, Half, other half · What happens: say, not be, give · To what, where: information, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Amack, Half, other half), 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	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 true	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 what	case
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Half	nmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 true	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 true	advmod
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gives	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 gives	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 half	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 half	amod
13	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 gives	nsubj
14	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 true	parataxis
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 gives	iobj
16	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gives	obj
17	enough	enough	ADV	_	14 gives	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Amack				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	Half			true property	tree rules
3	give	present	the other half	information	us	enough property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient information=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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