Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 185
Towards evening she spoke more words to the student than it was customary with her to use; she spoke of her husband.
Who acts: vitriol, hood · What happens: speak, be, use · To what, where: more words · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (vitriol, hood), 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 | Towards | toward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 evening | compound |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spoke | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 student | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 student | det |
| 9 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obl |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 customary | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 customary | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 customary | cop |
| 13 | customary | customary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 student | nmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 customary | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 use | mark |
| 17 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 customary | acl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 spoke | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 spoke | nsubj |
| 20 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 husband | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 husband | nmod:poss |
| 23 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spoke | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | vitriol | more words | evening | to the student | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | past | hood | than customary; with vitriol | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | to-infinitive | vitriol not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | vitriol | of vitriol's husband | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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