Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 146
Not an hour was over before the General's lady knew it out of the General's own mouth.
Who acts: hour, lady · What happens: not be, know · To what, where: madness, own mouth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour, 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 over | advmod |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hour | det |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 over | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 over | cop |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 knew | mark |
| 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 | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 over | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 mouth | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mouth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 General | det |
| 16 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 General | case |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mouth | amod |
| 19 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knew | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 over | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | a hour | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | the General's lady | madness | the General's own mouth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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