Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 42
"Yes, the retribution of a Christian," replied the knight. "
Who acts: retribution · What happens: reply · To what, where: knight
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (retribution), 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 | _ | 5 retribution | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 retribution | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 retribution | det |
| 5 | retribution | retribution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Christian | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Christian | det |
| 8 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 retribution | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 retribution | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 retribution | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 knight | det |
| 13 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the retribution of a Christian | the knight | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent knight=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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