Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 60
It was from the manager of a theatre; the pieces were rejected, not at all in polite terms.
Who acts: letter · What happens: be, reject · To what, where: manager, pieces
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 manager | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 manager | cop |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 manager | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 manager | det |
| 5 | manager | manager | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 theatre | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 theatre | det |
| 8 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 manager | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 rejected | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pieces | det |
| 11 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rejected | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rejected | aux:pass |
| 13 | rejected | reject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 manager | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 all | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 all | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 rejected | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 terms | case |
| 19 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 terms | amod |
| 20 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 all | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 manager | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | letter | the manager | of a theatre | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reject | past · passive | the pieces | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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