Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 73
Her partner whispered words to her which she did not understand, nor do we understand them.
Who acts: partner, we · What happens: whisper, not understand, understand · To what, where: words, sounds
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 (partner, we), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 partner | nmod:poss |
| 2 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whispered | nsubj |
| 3 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 whispered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 11 understand | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 understand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 understand | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 understand | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 understand | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 understand | advmod |
| 11 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 whispered | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 understand | punct |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 understand | cc |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 understand | aux |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 understand | nsubj |
| 16 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 whispered | parataxis |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 understand | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | joviality's partner | words | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not understand | past · do-support | partner | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | understand | present · do-support | we | sounds = sound | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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