Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 86
Marie Grubbe sat down in her times, but not with the same spirit that old Poultry Meg showed.
Who acts: Marie, same spirit · What happens: sit down, show
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 (Marie, same spirit), 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 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | Grubbe | Grubbe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Marie | flat |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 times | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 times | nmod:poss |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spirit | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 spirit | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 spirit | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 spirit | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spirit | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spirit | amod |
| 14 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 showed | nsubj |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Poultry | amod |
| 17 | Poultry | Poultry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 showed | nsubj |
| 18 | Meg | Meg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Poultry | flat |
| 19 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 spirit | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Marie | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | show | past | the same spirit | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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