Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 29
"That is my sister," replied the pea-blossom.
Who acts: That, sister · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: sister, pea blossom · 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 (That, sister), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sister | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 sister | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sister | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sister | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sister | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 blossom | det |
| 10 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blossom | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 pea | punct |
| 12 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | my sister | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | my sister | the pea blossom | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent blossom=Topic |
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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