Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 7
Mrs. Meta was now on the chain, she could not even bark.
Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: be, not bark · To what, where: chain
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs.), 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 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 chain | nsubj |
| 2 | Meta | Meta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs. | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chain | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 chain | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 chain | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chain | det |
| 7 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bark | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bark | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bark | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 bark | advmod |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 bark | advmod |
| 13 | bark | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 chain | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 chain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mrs. | the chain | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not bark | could | Mrs. | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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