Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 238
"No," she replied, with quiet confidence, "it is indestructible.
Who acts: plenty, hand · What happens: reply, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, hand), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 confidence | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 confidence | case |
| 9 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 confidence | amod |
| 10 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 indestructible | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 indestructible | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 indestructible | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 indestructible | cop |
| 15 | indestructible | indestructible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | plenty | with quiet confidence | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | hand | indestructible property | tree rules |
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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