Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 67
She answered openly, and spoke with bitterness and hatred of her husband, with whom she declared she would not live; she was too honorable for that.
Who acts: Grubbe · What happens: answer, speak, declare, not live, be · 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), 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 | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | openly | openly | ADV | _ | 2 answered | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spoke | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 spoke | cc |
| 6 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 answered | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bitterness | case |
| 8 | bitterness | bitterness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spoke | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hatred | cc |
| 10 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bitterness | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 husband | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hatred | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whom | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 whom | case |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 spoke | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 declared | nsubj |
| 18 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 whom | acl:relcl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 live | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 live | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 live | advmod |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 declared | ccomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 honorable | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 honorable | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 honorable | cop |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 27 honorable | advmod |
| 27 | honorable | honorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 answered | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 that | case |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 honorable | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Grubbe | openly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Grubbe not said here | with bitterness and hatred of Grubbe's husband | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with bitterness=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | Grubbe | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not live | would | Grubbe | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Grubbe | for that; honorable 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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