Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 110
"Yes, indeed," she replied, "no such a thing as a respectable meat soup--their cookery is miserable stuff."
Who acts: Kaela, cookery, living · What happens: reply, be, cook · To what, where: miserable stuff · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kaela, cookery, living), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 8 replied | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indeed | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thing | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 thing | punct |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 thing | det |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 thing | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 soup | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 soup | det |
| 17 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 soup | amod |
| 18 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 soup | compound |
| 19 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thing | nmod |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 stuff | punct |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 cookery | nmod:poss |
| 22 | cookery | cookery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stuff | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 stuff | cop |
| 24 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stuff | amod |
| 25 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thing | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 stuff | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 stuff | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Kaela | indeed property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | living's cookery | miserable stuff | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cook in a quote | living | nom cookery «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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