Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 9
"Maiden is a human name, but hand-rammer is a thing, and we won't be called things--that's insulting us."
Who acts: Maiden, hand rammer, that · What happens: be, not call · To what, where: human name, thing, we · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maiden, hand rammer, that), 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 | _ | 6 name | punct |
| 2 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 name | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 5 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 name | amod |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thing | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 thing | cc |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rammer | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 hand | punct |
| 11 | rammer | rammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thing | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 thing | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 called | cc |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 called | nsubj |
| 18 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 called | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 called | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 called | aux:pass |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 thing | acl:relcl |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 called | xcomp |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 insulting | punct |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 insulting | nsubj |
| 25 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 insulting | cop |
| 26 | insulting | insulting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thing | parataxis |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 insulting | nsubj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 name | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Maiden | a human name but a thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | hand rammer | a thing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not call in a quote | future · passive | we | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | that | insulting property | 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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