Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 147
"Ludwig Holberg," answered the student; and the name sounded like any other.
Who acts: Ludwig, name · What happens: answer, sound · To what, where: student
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ludwig, name), 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 Ludwig | punct |
| 2 | Ludwig | Ludwig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | Holberg | Holberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ludwig | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ludwig | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 student | det |
| 8 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 sounded | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sounded | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 name | det |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sounded | nsubj |
| 13 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | conj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 any | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 sounded | obl |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 any | fixed |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Ludwig | the student | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent student=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sound | past | the name | like any | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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