Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 32
And the ant-queen remarked that their conduct that day showed that they possessed kind hearts and good understanding. '
Who acts: ant queen, burdens · What happens: remark, show, possess, conduct · To what, where: ant queen, kind hearts · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ant queen, burdens), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 showed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 3 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 queen | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ant | punct |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 showed | nsubj |
| 6 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 queen | acl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 conduct | mark |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 9 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remarked | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 showed | nsubj |
| 12 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 possessed | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 possessed | nsubj |
| 15 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 showed | ccomp |
| 16 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hearts | amod |
| 17 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 possessed | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 understanding | cc |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 understanding | amod |
| 20 | understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hearts | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 showed | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | participle | the ant queen not said here | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | show | past | the ant queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | possess | past | burdens = burden | kind hearts and good understanding | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot heart=Theme | ||||
| 4 | conduct | burdens = burden | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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