Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 55
She had herself added this in a postscript, and in the same postscript she wrote, "Kind regards to Knud."
Who acts: letter · What happens: add, write · To what, where: this, postscript, Kind regards, same postscript
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 added | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 added | aux |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 added | nsubj |
| 4 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 added | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 postscript | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 postscript | det |
| 8 | postscript | postscript | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 added | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wrote | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wrote | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 postscript | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 postscript | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 postscript | amod |
| 14 | postscript | postscript | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wrote | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wrote | nsubj |
| 16 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 added | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 regards | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 regards | punct |
| 19 | Kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 regards | amod |
| 20 | regards | regards | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 wrote | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Knud | case |
| 22 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 regards | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 added | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past · perfect | letter | this | a postscript | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient | |||
| 2 | write | past | letter | Kind regards | the same postscript | to Knud | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent regards=Theme in postscript=Destination |
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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