Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 15
"No, I mean the honor of it," replied the wife. "
Who acts: wife · What happens: mean, reply, honor · To what, where: honor · 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 (wife), 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 | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 mean | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 honor | det |
| 7 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mean | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 honor | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wife | det |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | the wife = wife | the honor of honor | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honor=Topic | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the wife | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | honor in a quote | honor | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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