Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 14
After she had read it three times, she knew it by heart, so she popped the fish into the soup saucepan, as she knew it was good to eat, and she never wasted anything.
Who acts: woman, it · What happens: read, know, pop, be, eat, not waste · To what, where: piece, fish, soup saucepan, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, it), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 read | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 read | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | aux |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 knew | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 read | obj |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 read | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 read | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 popped | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 popped | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 popped | nsubj |
| 17 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 knew | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fish | det |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 popped | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 saucepan | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 saucepan | det |
| 22 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saucepan | compound |
| 23 | saucepan | saucepan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 popped | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 knew | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 knew | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 knew | nsubj |
| 27 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 popped | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 good | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 good | cop |
| 30 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 knew | ccomp |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 eat | mark |
| 32 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 good | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 wasted | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 wasted | cc |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 wasted | nsubj |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 37 wasted | advmod |
| 37 | wasted | waste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 knew | conj |
| 38 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 37 wasted | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past · perfect | woman | piece | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | know | past | woman | piece | by heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | pop | past | woman | the fish | into the soup saucepan result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent fish=Patient into saucepan=Result | |||
| 4 | know | past | woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | it | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | not waste | past | woman | anything | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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