Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 165
Is it true what they say, that she was good for nothing?"
Who acts: poor, tears, mother · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (poor, tears, 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 true | nsubj |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 say | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 good | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 good | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 good | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 good | cop |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 true | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 nothing | case |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 good | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 good | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | poor | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | tears = tear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | mother | for nothing; good property | 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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