Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 38
"There is going to be great feasting," replied the kitchen-cat. "
Who acts: kitchen cat · What happens: go, be, reply · To what, where: great feasting · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At 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 cat), 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 going | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 going | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 feasting | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 feasting | cop |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feasting | amod |
| 8 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cat | det |
| 13 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cat | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 kitchen | punct |
| 15 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | great feasting | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the kitchen cat | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: 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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