Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 56
"Yes, certainly," replied Martha; "but why do you take it so much to heart?
Who acts: Martha, you · What happens: reply, take · To what, where: death · 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 (Martha, you), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 replied | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 certainly | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 certainly | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Martha | Martha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 but | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 take | cc |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 take | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 take | nsubj |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 take | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 heart | mark |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 much | advcl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | Martha | certainly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | present · do-support | you | death | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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