Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 33
"One of our first families!" repeated the General and afterwards the General's lady; "what is meant by one of our first families?"
What happens: repeat, mean · To what, where: One
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: 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 | _ | 2 One | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 repeated | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 families | case |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 families | nmod:poss |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 families | amod |
| 6 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 repeated | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 families | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 families | punct |
| 9 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 General | det |
| 11 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 repeated | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lady | cc |
| 13 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 17 lady | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 General | det |
| 15 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lady | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 General | case |
| 17 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 General | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 meant | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 meant | punct |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 meant | aux:pass |
| 22 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 repeated | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 meant | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 families | case |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 families | nmod:poss |
| 27 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 families | amod |
| 28 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 one | nmod |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 repeated | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | One | of our first families | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent general=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present · passive | by one of our first families | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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