Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 18
"Superbe, charmant," said the ladies of the court, for they all prattled French, one worse than the other.
Who acts: Superbe, ladies · What happens: say, prattle · To what, where: ladies, French · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Superbe, ladies), 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 | _ | 2 Superbe | punct |
| 2 | Superbe | Superbe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 charmant | punct |
| 4 | charmant | charmant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Superbe | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Superbe | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Superbe | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ladies | det |
| 9 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 court | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 court | det |
| 12 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ladies | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 prattled | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 prattled | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 prattled | nsubj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 prattled | advmod |
| 17 | prattled | prattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 18 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 prattled | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 worse | punct |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 worse | nummod |
| 21 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 prattled | conj |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 other | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 other | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 worse | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Superbe | the ladies of the court | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | ||||
| 2 | prattle speech: other | past | ladies = lady | French | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent french=Topic |
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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