Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 64
"Yes," replied the Princess, "my father is going to roast young pullets today."
Who acts: Princess, father · What happens: reply, go, roast · To what, where: young pullets · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, father), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 going | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 roast | mark |
| 15 | roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 going | xcomp |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pullets | amod |
| 17 | pullets | pullet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 roast | obj |
| 18 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 roast | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | my father | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | roast in a quote | to-infinitive | my father not said here | young pullets | today | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pullet=Patient |
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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