Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 166
"No, indeed, it is not true," replied the old servant, raising her eyes to heaven; "she was worth a great deal; I knew it years ago, and since the last night of her life I am more certain of it than ever.
Who acts: poor, old servant, mother · What happens: not be, reply, raise, be, know · To what, where: eyes, heaven, poor · 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, old servant, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 true | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 true | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 9 true | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 true | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 true | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 true | advmod |
| 9 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 replied | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 true | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 true | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 servant | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 servant | amod |
| 15 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 raising | punct |
| 17 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 replied | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 raising | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 heaven | case |
| 21 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 raising | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 worth | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 worth | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 worth | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 worth | cop |
| 26 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 replied | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 deal | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 deal | amod |
| 29 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 worth | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 knew | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 knew | nsubj |
| 32 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 worth | advcl |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 knew | obj |
| 34 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 32 knew | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 certain | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 certain | cc |
| 38 | since | since | ADP | _ | 41 night | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 night | det |
| 40 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 night | amod |
| 41 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 certain | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 life | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 life | nmod:poss |
| 44 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 night | nmod |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 certain | nsubj |
| 46 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 certain | cop |
| 47 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 48 certain | advmod |
| 48 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 worth | conj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 it | case |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 certain | obl |
| 51 | than | than | ADP | _ | 52 ever | case |
| 52 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 48 certain | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | poor | indeed, true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the old servant | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | raise | gerund | the old servant not said here | mother's eyes | heaven | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme to heaven=Destination | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | mother | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know in a quote | past | the old servant = servant | poor | ago property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | the old servant = servant | night | of poor; certain 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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