Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 158
"She behaves like a mad woman," said the neighbor's wife. "
Who acts: Charlotte, wife · What happens: behave, 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 (Charlotte, wife), 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 | _ | 3 behaves | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 behaves | nsubj |
| 3 | behaves | behave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 woman | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 woman | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 woman | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 behaves | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 neighbor | det |
| 12 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 neighbor | case |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 behaves | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 behaves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behave in a quote | present | Charlotte | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the neighbor's wife | like a mad woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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