Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 109
“Ivedy-Avedy,” cried some; “Humpy-Dumpy,” cried the others.
Who acts: Ivedy, others · What happens: cry · To what, where: some
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivedy, others), 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 Ivedy | punct |
| 2 | Ivedy | Ivedy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Avedy | punct |
| 4 | Avedy | Avedy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ivedy | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ivedy | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ivedy | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 cried | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 Dumpy | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Dumpy | punct |
| 11 | Humpy | humpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Dumpy | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Humpy | punct |
| 13 | Dumpy | dumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Dumpy | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 others | det |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cried | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Ivedy and Avedy | some | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the others | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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