Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 5
"Thank you," said the woman, and she gave the fairy twelve shillings, which was the price of the barleycorn.
Who acts: woman, twelve shillings · What happens: thank, say, give, be · To what, where: you, twelve shillings, fairy, price · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, twelve shillings), 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 | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 2 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Thank | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fairy | det |
| 14 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 15 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 shillings | nummod |
| 16 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gave | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 price | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 price | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 price | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 price | det |
| 21 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shillings | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 barleycorn | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 barleycorn | det |
| 24 | barleycorn | barleycorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 price | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | past | woman | twelve shillings and the price | the fairy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient shilling=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a | past | twelve shillings and the price | the price | of the barleycorn | tree rules |
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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