Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 90
"Many thanks, you good soul," she said to Martha. "
Who acts: Martha, mother · What happens: soul, say · To what, where: Martha · 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, 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 | _ | 3 thanks | punct |
| 2 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thanks | amod |
| 3 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 soul | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 soul | nsubj |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 soul | amod |
| 7 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanks | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanks | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanks | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Martha | case |
| 13 | Martha | Martha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soul in a quote | Martha | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | mother | Martha | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to martha=Recipient |
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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