Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 71
"So they were drowned," repeated Anne Lisbeth; but she said no more, and the subject was dropped.
Who acts: Anne · What happens: drown, repeat, say, drop · To what, where: woman, Anne, more, subject · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anne), 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 | _ | 5 drowned | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 drowned | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drowned | aux:pass |
| 5 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 repeated | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 repeated | punct |
| 8 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 drowned | conj |
| 9 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 repeated | obj |
| 10 | Lisbeth | Lisbeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Anne | flat |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drowned | conj |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dropped | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dropped | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 subject | det |
| 20 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dropped | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dropped | aux:pass |
| 22 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 drowned | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drowned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown in a quote | past · passive | woman | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | repeat | participle | Anne | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anne=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Anne | more | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | ||||
| 4 | drop | past · passive | the subject | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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