Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 44
Grubbe the knight was a hard man, they said; but his daughter, young as she was, knew how to manage him.
Who acts: Grubbe knight, plantations, daughter · What happens: be, say, know, manage · To what, where: hard man, man · 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 (Grubbe knight, plantations, daughter), 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 | Grubbe | Grubbe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knight | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 young | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 young | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 young | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 young | punct |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 was | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 was | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 young | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 manage | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 manage | mark |
| 24 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 knew | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 manage | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Grubbe knight | a hard man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | plantations = plantation | a hard man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be | past | daughter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know | past | plantations = plantation not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | manage | to-infinitive | plantations = plantation not said here | man | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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