Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 13
"Only half a quartern," stammered the boy in a frightened voice.
Who acts: boy · What happens: stammer · To what, where: quartern, frightened voice
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | _ | 5 quartern | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 half | advmod |
| 3 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 5 quartern | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 quartern | det |
| 5 | quartern | quartern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stammered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 quartern | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 stammered | punct |
| 8 | stammered | stammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stammered | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 voice | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 13 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voice | amod |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stammered | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stammered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stammer speech: other | past | the boy | half quartern | a frightened voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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