Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 2
But the ball, which wore a dress of morocco leather, and thought as much of herself as any other young lady, would not even condescend to reply.
Who acts: ball · What happens: wear, think, not condescend, reply · To what, where: dress, much
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 wore | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ball | det |
| 3 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wore | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wore | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 wore | nsubj |
| 6 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dress | det |
| 8 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wore | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 leather | case |
| 10 | morocco | morocco | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 leather | nmod:poss |
| 11 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dress | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wore | parataxis |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thought | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 herself | case |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 much | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 lady | case |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 lady | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lady | amod |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lady | amod |
| 23 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 much | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 condescend | punct |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 condescend | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 condescend | advmod |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 condescend | advmod |
| 28 | condescend | condescend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 reply | mark |
| 30 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 condescend | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | the ball | a dress of morocco's leather | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | much | as any other young lady | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not condescend | would | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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