Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 16
"For shame, it is natural," repeated all her ladies.
What happens: be, repeat · To what, where: ladies
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 natural | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 shame | case |
| 3 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 natural | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 shame | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 natural | expl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 natural | cop |
| 7 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 repeated | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 repeated | punct |
| 10 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 natural | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 ladies | det:predet |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 repeated | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 natural | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | for shame; natural property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | repeat | past | more's ladies | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=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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