Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 189

"Do you think so?" said Mother Soren; then she looked into the fire for a while; but after a time she began to speak again. "

Who acts: you, Mother · What happens: think, say, look, begin, speak · To what, where: time · 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 (you, Mother), 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	_	4 think	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 think	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	Soren	Soren	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Mother	flat
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 looked	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 looked	nsubj
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 fire	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fire	det
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looked	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 while	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 while	det
20	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looked	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 time	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 time	cc
23	after	after	ADP	_	25 time	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 began	nsubj
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 time	acl:relcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 speak	mark
29	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 began	xcomp
30	again	again	ADV	_	29 speak	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 time	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: ask	past	Mother		time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look	past	mother		then; while	into the fire	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into fire=Theme
4	begin	past	mother	a time not said here			tree rules
5	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	mother not said here		again		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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