Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 61
Is the bottle empty?" and she leaned against the plank.
Who acts: bottle, Martha · What happens: be, learn
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 (bottle, Martha), 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 | 4 empty | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bottle | det |
| 3 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 empty | nsubj |
| 4 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 empty | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 empty | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 leaned | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 leaned | nsubj |
| 9 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 empty | conj |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 plank | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 plank | det |
| 12 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaned | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 empty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the bottle | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn in a quote | past | Martha | against the plank | vn learn-14-1 «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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