Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 40
"No, that will never do," said she, "because I know that the Chinaman and the pot-pourri jar were lovers once, and there always remains behind a feeling of good-will between those who have been so intimate as that.
Who acts: that, Chinaman · What happens: not do, say, know, be, remain · To what, where: feeling · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Chinaman), 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 | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 do | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 do | advmod |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 were | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Chinaman | det |
| 19 | Chinaman | Chinaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 were | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 jar | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 jar | det |
| 22 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pourri | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 pot | punct |
| 24 | pourri | pourri | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 jar | compound |
| 25 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Chinaman | conj |
| 26 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | advcl |
| 27 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 were | nsubj |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 were | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 remains | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 remains | cc |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 remains | expl |
| 32 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 33 remains | advmod |
| 33 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | conj |
| 34 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 36 feeling | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 feeling | det |
| 36 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 remains | obl |
| 37 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 40 will | mark |
| 38 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 will | amod |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 good | punct |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 feeling | acl:relcl |
| 41 | between | between | ADP | _ | 42 those | case |
| 42 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 47 intimate | obl |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 intimate | nsubj |
| 44 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 intimate | aux |
| 45 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 47 intimate | cop |
| 46 | so | so | ADV | _ | 47 intimate | advmod |
| 47 | intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 remains | conj |
| 48 | as | as | ADP | _ | 49 that | case |
| 49 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 intimate | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | future | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Chinaman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | Chinaman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | past | the Chinaman and the pourri jar | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | remain in a quote | present | Chinaman not said here | a feeling; there | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind feeling=Location | |||
| 6 | is in a quote | present · perfect | between those; as that; intimate property | tree rules |
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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