Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 68
"There are ten neckerchiefs in it," she replied, "as well as beautiful dresses, stockings, and a hat and veil."
Who acts: ten neckerchiefs, Christina · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: beautiful dresses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ten neckerchiefs, Christina), 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 are | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 neckerchiefs | nummod |
| 5 | neckerchiefs | neckerchief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 are | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 neckerchiefs | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 neckerchiefs | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dresses | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dresses | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 18 dresses | cc |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 as | fixed |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dresses | amod |
| 18 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 replied | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stockings | punct |
| 20 | stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dresses | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hat | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hat | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hat | det |
| 24 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 are | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 veil | cc |
| 26 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hat | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | ten neckerchiefs in neck | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Christina | beautiful dresses and stockings | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent neckerchief=Topic |
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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