Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 231
That was a long gossip, but now you know all about me."
Who acts: That, you · What happens: be, know · To what, where: long gossip
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 (That, you), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 gossip | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gossip | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gossip | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gossip | amod |
| 5 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 know | cc |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 know | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 know | nsubj |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gossip | conj |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 me | advmod |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 know | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gossip | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 gossip | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | a long gossip | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | you | now | about me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about i=Stimulus |
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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