Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 32
"What might suit the kitchen would not suit the parlor," said the other. "
Who acts: kitchen, other · What happens: suit, not suit, say · To what, where: parlor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kitchen, other), 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 | _ | 4 suit | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 suit | obj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 suit | aux |
| 4 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kitchen | det |
| 6 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 suit | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 suit | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 suit | advmod |
| 9 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 suit | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 parlor | det |
| 11 | parlor | parlor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 suit | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 suit | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 suit | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suit in a quote | might | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not suit in a quote | would | the kitchen | the parlor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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