Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 39
"She has a palace," replied the ant,--"a most beautiful ant-palace with seven hundred passages."
Who acts: bride, ant · What happens: have, reply · To what, where: palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bride, ant), 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 has | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ant | det |
| 10 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 palace | punct |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 palace | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 palace | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 palace | amod |
| 17 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 palace | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 ant | punct |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ant | appos |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 passages | case |
| 21 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 hundred | compound |
| 22 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 passages | nummod |
| 23 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 palace | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | bride | a palace | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the ant | vn respond-113 «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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