Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 82
These were denied, but the mask gave him a hint.
Who acts: mask · What happens: deny, give · To what, where: These, hint, 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 (mask), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 denied | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 denied | aux:pass |
| 3 | denied | deny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mask | det |
| 7 | mask | mask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 denied | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hint | det |
| 11 | hint | hint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 denied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deny | past · passive | These | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | give | past | the mask | a hint | General | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient hint=Theme |
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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