Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 54
"It contains a free admission to a cabbage-garden," replied the mule. "
Who acts: earthworm, mule · What happens: contain, reply · To what, where: free admission · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earthworm, mule), 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 | _ | 3 contains | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 contains | nsubj |
| 3 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 admission | det |
| 5 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 admission | amod |
| 6 | admission | admission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 contains | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 garden | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 9 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 garden | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 cabbage | punct |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 admission | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 contains | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mule | det |
| 16 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 contains | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain in a quote | present | earthworm | a free admission | to a cabbage garden | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the mule | vn respond-113 «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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