Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 16

But Marguerite did not answer him; she was offended that he should call her a woman when she was only a girl; and there is a great difference.

Who acts: Marguerite, butterfly, great difference · What happens: not answer, be, call · To what, where: butterfly, Marguerite, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marguerite, butterfly, great difference), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 answer	cc
2	Marguerite	Marguerite	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answer	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 answer	advmod
5	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 answer	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 offended	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 offended	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 offended	cop
10	offended	offended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 call	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 call	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 call	aux
14	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 offended	advcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 call	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 woman	det
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 call	xcomp
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 girl	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 girl	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 girl	cop
21	only	only	ADV	_	23 girl	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 girl	det
23	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 call	advcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 is	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 is	cc
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 is	expl
27	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 difference	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 difference	amod
30	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 is	nsubj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	Marguerite		butterfly			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
2	is	past	Marguerite				offended property	tree rules
3	call	should	butterfly		Marguerite			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	is a	past	Marguerite	a girl				tree rules
5	be	present	a great difference			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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