Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 40
“We have peeped in at the windows in the town below!
What happens: peep in · To what, where: We
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: 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 | _ | 4 peeped | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 peeped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 peeped | aux |
| 4 | peeped | peep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 peeped | compound:prt |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 windows | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 windows | det |
| 8 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 peeped | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 windows | nmod |
| 12 | below | below | ADV | _ | 11 town | advmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep in in a quote | present · perfect · passive | We | at the windows in the town | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: subject=Theme at window=Stimulus |
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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