Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 211
"I should not endure such treatment," said the tax-collector's wife. "
Who acts: I · What happens: not endure, say · To what, where: such treatment · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 5 endure | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 endure | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 endure | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 endure | advmod |
| 5 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 treatment | amod |
| 7 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 endure | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 endure | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 endure | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 collector | det |
| 12 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 collector | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 tax | punct |
| 14 | collector | collector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 collector | case |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not endure in a quote | should | I | such treatment | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme treatment=Circumstance | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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