Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 12
This was a very rude speech, especially against the cask; but the huckster and the student both laughed, for it was only said in fun.
Who acts: This, huckster · What happens: be, laugh, say · To what, where: rude speech, cask, fun · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, huckster), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 speech | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 speech | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 speech | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 rude | advmod |
| 5 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 speech | amod |
| 6 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cask | punct |
| 8 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 11 cask | advmod |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 cask | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cask | det |
| 11 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speech | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 laughed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 laughed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 huckster | det |
| 15 | huckster | huckster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 laughed | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 student | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 student | det |
| 18 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 huckster | conj |
| 19 | both | both | ADV | _ | 20 laughed | advmod |
| 20 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 speech | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 laughed | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 said | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | aux:pass |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 said | advmod |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 laughed | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 fun | case |
| 28 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 speech | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a rude speech and the cask | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | the huckster and the student | both property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · passive | cask | fun | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in fun=Manner |
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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