Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 219
"You mean it that way," said she, and then she was silent for a long time.
Who acts: You, Holberg · What happens: mean, say, be · To what, where: east · 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, Holberg), 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 | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mean | obj |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mean | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mean | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 silent | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 silent | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 silent | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 silent | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 silent | cop |
| 16 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 silent | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | You | east | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Holberg | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Holberg | then; time | silent property | tree rules |
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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