Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 149
But his mother persisted in saying "Yes."
Who acts: mother · What happens: persist, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 persisted | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 persisted | nsubj |
| 4 | persisted | persist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 saying | mark |
| 6 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 persisted | advcl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yes | punct |
| 8 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 saying | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 persisted | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 persisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persist | past | betrothal's mother | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | betrothal's mother not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=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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