Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 127
"But it's so wonderfully ugly," persisted the first.
Who acts: two · What happens: be, persist · To what, where: first
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two), 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 ugly | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 ugly | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ugly | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ugly | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 ugly | advmod |
| 6 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 7 ugly | advmod |
| 7 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 persisted | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ugly | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ugly | punct |
| 10 | persisted | persist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 first | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 persisted | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 persisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | two | ugly, wonderfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | persist | past | the first | tree rules |
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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