Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 130
"That was not a loving speech," said Sophy, "nor spoken like a Christian.
Who acts: That, loving speech · What happens: not be, say, speak · To what, where: loving speech, Sophy · 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 (That, loving speech), 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 | _ | 7 speech | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 speech | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 speech | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 speech | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 speech | det |
| 6 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 speech | amod |
| 7 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 speech | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 speech | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Sophy | sophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sophy | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sophy | punct |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 spoken | cc |
| 15 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 Christian | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Christian | det |
| 18 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 spoken | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | past | That | a loving speech | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a loving speech | Sophy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sophy=Topic | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | participle | a loving speech not said here | like a Christian | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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