Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 24
"The pope is not allowed to marry," replied the gentleman.
Who acts: pope, gentleman · What happens: not allow, marry, reply · To what, where: pope · 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 (pope, gentleman), 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 | _ | 6 allowed | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pope | det |
| 3 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 allowed | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 allowed | advmod |
| 6 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 marry | mark |
| 8 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 allowed | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 allowed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gentleman | det |
| 13 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow in a quote | present · passive | the pope | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the pope not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the gentleman | vn respond-113 «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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