Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 145
Squeak!” said a little Mouse, at the same moment, peeping out of his hole.
Who acts: Squeak · What happens: say, peep out · To what, where: little Mouse, hole · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Squeak), 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 | Squeak | squeak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Squeak | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Squeak | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Mouse | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Mouse | amod |
| 7 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 moment | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moment | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 moment | amod |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 peeping | punct |
| 14 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 said | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 hole | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hole | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hole | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 peeping | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Squeak | a little Mouse | moment | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic | |||
| 2 | peep out in a quote | gerund | Squeak not said here | Squeak's hole | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme |
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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