Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 66
She was not of a gentle temper, and we often answer as we are addressed.
Who acts: Grubbe, we · What happens: not be, answer, address · To what, where: we
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, we), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 temper | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 temper | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 temper | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 temper | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 temper | det |
| 6 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 temper | amod |
| 7 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answer | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 answer | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 answer | nsubj |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 answer | advmod |
| 12 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 temper | conj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 addressed | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 addressed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 addressed | aux:pass |
| 16 | addressed | address | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 answer | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 temper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Grubbe | of a gentle temper | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | present | we | often property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | address | present · passive | we | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
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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