Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 17
He asked her a second time, and then a third; but she remained dumb, and answered not a word.
Who acts: difference, Marguerite · What happens: ask, remain, not answer · To what, where: third, Marguerite, word
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 (difference, Marguerite), 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 | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 third | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 third | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 third | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 third | det |
| 11 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 remained | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 remained | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 remained | nsubj |
| 15 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | conj |
| 16 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 remained | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 answered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 answered | cc |
| 19 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 answered | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 word | det |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 answered | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | difference | a third | Marguerite | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||
| 2 | remain | past | Marguerite | dumb property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not answer speech: assert | past | a word | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |
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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