Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 66

He bowed to them, and was as polite as he could be, but he did not reply to their question. "

Who acts: cat, eyes · What happens: bow, be, not reply, question · To what, where: eyes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, eyes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bowed	nsubj
2	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bowed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 polite	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 polite	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 polite	cop
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 polite	advmod
9	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bowed	parataxis
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 be	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 be	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 be	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 polite	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 reply	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 reply	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 reply	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 reply	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 reply	advmod
19	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bowed	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 question	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 question	nmod:poss
22	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reply	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bowed	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 bowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	bow	past	cat	eyes = eye		vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme
2	is	past			polite property	tree rules
3	not reply speech: assert	past · do-support	cat		to eyes's question	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to question=Theme
4	question		eyes = eye			nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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