Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 8
"'But it was not this very velvet!' observed the footman, and a smile played about his mouth. '
Who acts: church, velvet · What happens: not be, observe, play · To what, where: velvet, footman, smile
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church, velvet), 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 | _ | 9 velvet | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 velvet | punct |
| 3 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 velvet | cc |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 velvet | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 velvet | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 velvet | advmod |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 velvet | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 velvet | advmod |
| 9 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 observed | nsubj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 velvet | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 velvet | punct |
| 12 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 footman | det |
| 14 | footman | footman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 observed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 smile | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 smile | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 smile | det |
| 18 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 observed | obl |
| 19 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 smile | acl |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 mouth | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 played | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 smile | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 smile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | past | church | this velvet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | observe in a quote | past | this velvet | the footman | a smile obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent footman=Topic | |||
| 3 | play in a quote | participle | a smile not said here | about velvet's mouth | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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