Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 164
Whether that person was a man or a woman was not an easy matter to determine.
Who acts: person, woman · What happens: be, not be, determine · To what, where: man, easy matter
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 (person, woman), 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 6 man | mark |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 matter | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 matter | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 matter | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 matter | advmod |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 matter | det |
| 13 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 matter | amod |
| 14 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 determine | mark |
| 16 | determine | determine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 matter | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that person | a man or a easy matter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | a woman | a easy matter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | determine | to-infinitive | that person not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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