Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 27
"I spat!" cried the General's lady; "what an expression!
Who acts: lady · What happens: spat, cry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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 spat | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 spat | nsubj |
| 3 | spat | spat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 spat | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 spat | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 General | det |
| 8 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lady | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 General | case |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 expression | det |
| 15 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 what | nsubj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spat in a quote | present | the General's lady = lady | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the General's lady | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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