Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 46
No,' replied the daughters, 'for he ate them up.' '
Who acts: spearer · What happens: reply, eat up · To what, where: daughters, daughter
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spearer), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 replied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ate | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 daughters | det |
| 6 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 replied | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ate | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 ate | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 ate | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ate | nsubj |
| 11 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ate | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 ate | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ate | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 ate | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | spearer not said here | the daughters | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic | ||||
| 2 | eat up | past | spearer | daughter | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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