Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 67
"All malice, and not a bit of truth in it," said our aunt.
Who acts: malice · What happens: say · To what, where: aunt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (malice), 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 | _ | 3 malice | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 malice | det |
| 3 | malice | malice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bit | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bit | cc |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 bit | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 malice | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 truth | case |
| 10 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bit | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 truth | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 malice | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 malice | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 17 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | all malice | our aunt | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent aunt=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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