Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 8
"That," replied the mother, "nobody can understand."
Who acts: mother, nobody · What happens: reply, understand · To what, where: That, mother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, nobody), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 replied | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 That | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mother | det |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 understand | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 understand | punct |
| 10 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 understand | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 understand | aux |
| 12 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 mother | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the mother | That | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | understand in a quote | can | nobody | the mother not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |
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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