Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 27
"Very well," he replied; "I shall bring you no other marriage portion than a story," and so they parted.
Who acts: father, stories · What happens: reply, bring, part · To what, where: other marriage portion, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, stories), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bring | aux |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 portion | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 portion | amod |
| 16 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 portion | compound |
| 17 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 story | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 story | det |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 portion | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 parted | cc |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 parted | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 parted | nsubj |
| 26 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | father | well property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | shall | father | no other marriage portion | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination portion=Theme | |||
| 3 | part | past | stories = story | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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