Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 136
She reddened from brow to neck, and answered not a single word; and then strangers came into the room, and one of them was the state councillor's son.
Who acts: Charlotte, strangers, one · What happens: redden, not answer, come, be · To what, where: brow, single word, room, son
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charlotte, strangers, one), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reddened | nsubj |
| 2 | reddened | redden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 brow | case |
| 4 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reddened | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 neck | case |
| 6 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reddened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 answered | cc |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reddened | parataxis |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 answered | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 word | det |
| 12 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 word | amod |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 came | advmod |
| 17 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reddened | parataxis |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 room | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 son | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 son | cc |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 son | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 one | nmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 son | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 councillor | det |
| 29 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 councillor | compound |
| 30 | councillor | councillor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 son | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 councillor | case |
| 32 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | vocative |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reddened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | redden | past | Charlotte | brow | to neck | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | not answer speech: assert | past | a single word | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | come | past | strangers | the room | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | is a | past | one of strangers | the state councillor's son | tree rules |
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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