Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 7
But the garter was naturally shy, and did not know how to answer such a question.
Who acts: garter · What happens: be, not know, answer · To what, where: question
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 shy | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 garter | det |
| 3 | garter | garter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shy | cop |
| 5 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 6 shy | advmod |
| 6 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 know | cc |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 shy | parataxis |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 answer | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 answer | mark |
| 14 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 know | xcomp |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 question | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 question | det |
| 17 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answer | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the garter | naturally, shy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | such question | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=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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