Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 13
"I have none," answered the maiden, with a laugh; it was as if she had not spoken the truth.
Who acts: river · What happens: have, be, not speak · To what, where: none, laugh · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 maiden | parataxis |
| 4 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 maiden | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maiden | det |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laugh | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 laugh | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 laugh | det |
| 13 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 maiden | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 spoken | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 spoken | aux:pass |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 spoken | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 spoken | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spoken | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 spoken | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 spoken | advmod |
| 22 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 maiden | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 truth | det |
| 24 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spoken | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the river = river | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | maiden property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | laugh | tree rules |
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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