Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 73
"Yes, we're roasting pullets to-day," replied the Princess.
Who acts: we, Princess · What happens: roast, reply · To what, where: 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 (we, Princess), 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 roasting | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 roasting | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 roasting | nsubj |
| 5 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 roasting | aux |
| 6 | roasting | roast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | pullets | pullet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 roasting | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roasting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 roasting | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 roasting | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roast in a quote | present · progressive | we | pullets | day | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pullet=Patient | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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