Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 49
"No, certainly not," replied the student; "but they can make signs.
Who acts: student, flowers · What happens: not reply, make · To what, where: signs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student, flowers), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 replied | advmod |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 replied | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 not | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 student | det |
| 10 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 make | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | aux |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | conj |
| 17 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reply speech: assert | past | the student | certainly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | can | flowers = flower | signs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product |
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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