Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 130

The dead woman did not answer a word, but sat quite still. "

Who acts: dead woman · What happens: not answer, sit · To what, where: word

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dead woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answer	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answer	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 answer	advmod
6	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answer	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answer	parataxis
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 still	advmod
13	still	still	ADV	_	11 sat	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answer	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	the dead woman	a word					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality
2	sit	past					still		vn assuming_position-50 «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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