Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 10
"We don't believe it," they replied; and at last little Gerda began to doubt it herself. "
Who acts: We, sparrows · What happens: not believe, reply, begin, doubt · To what, where: sledge, last little Gerda · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, sparrows), 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 believe | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | advcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 began | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 began | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Gerda | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Gerda | amod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Gerda | amod |
| 16 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 began | obl |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 doubt | mark |
| 19 | doubt | doubt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 doubt | obj |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 doubt | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe in a quote | present · do-support | We | sledge | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | sparrows = sparrow | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | We not said here | last little Gerda | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | doubt | to-infinitive | We not said here | sledge | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme herself=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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