Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 24
"Here it is," replied the witch; "and here is my blue checked apron."
Who acts: rope, witch · What happens: be, reply, check · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rope, witch), 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 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 witch | det |
| 9 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 here | cc |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Here | conj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 apron | nmod:poss |
| 16 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 apron | amod |
| 17 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 apron | amod |
| 18 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | rope | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the witch | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | check in a quote | participle | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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