Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 9
True, but it was this very place,' replied the woman, 'and it must have looked just like this. '
Who acts: church · What happens: be, reply, look · To what, where: True place, woman, church
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), 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 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 place | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 place | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 place | cc |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 place | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | cop |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 place | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 place | advmod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 woman | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 woman | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 looked | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 looked | aux |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 replied | conj |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 this | advmod |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 this | case |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 looked | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 place | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | church | this True place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | must · perfect · passive | church | like this | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
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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