Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 146
"I am no living water," was the answer. "
Who acts: living water · What happens: be · To what, where: living water, answer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (living water), 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 water | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 water | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 water | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 water | det |
| 5 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 water | compound |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answer | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 water | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 water | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 answer | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 answer | det |
| 11 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answer | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | no living water = water | no living water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be speech: assert | past | no living water | the answer | 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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