Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 12
"Yes, that's not much for a poor child," said the woman.
Who acts: that, woman · What happens: not be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, woman), 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 | _ | 7 much | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 much | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 much | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 much | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 child | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 child | amod |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 much | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 much | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 much | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | that | for a poor child; much property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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