Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 4
"Nor me either," replied the parlor-cat; "but I do not take it to heart.
Who acts: me, I · What happens: reply, not take · To what, where: parlor cat, more · 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 (me, I), 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 me | punct |
| 2 | Nor | nor | INTJ | _ | 3 me | discourse |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 me | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cat | det |
| 9 | parlor | parlor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cat | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 parlor | punct |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 take | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 take | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 take | advmod |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 heart | mark |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | me | the parlor cat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not take in a quote | present · do-support | I | more | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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