Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 91
He was tall and strong, and boasted of this when they talked together.
Who acts: Marie, Dyre · What happens: be, boast, talk
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, Dyre), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tall | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tall | cop |
| 3 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 strong | cc |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tall | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 boasted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 boasted | cc |
| 8 | boasted | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tall | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 boasted | obl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 talked | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 talked | nsubj |
| 13 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 boasted | advcl |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 talked | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Marie | tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Marie not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | boast speech: other | past | Marie not said here | of this | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | talk | past | Dyre | together property | vn talk-37.5 «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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