Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 64
But she was not teasing him; those times were past.
Who acts: wife, times · What happens: not tease, be · To what, where: General
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, times), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 teasing | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 teasing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 teasing | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 teasing | advmod |
| 5 | teasing | tease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 teasing | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 past | punct |
| 8 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 times | det |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 past | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 past | cop |
| 11 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 teasing | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 teasing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tease | past · progressive | wife | General | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that times | past property | tree rules |
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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