Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 11
He had long been looking at Gerda and shaking his head; and now he said, “Caw!
Who acts: Raven · What happens: look, shake, say · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Raven), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | aux |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 looking | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 looking | aux |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Gerda | case |
| 7 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shaking | cc |
| 9 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 looking | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shaking | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 said | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Caw | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Caw | punct |
| 19 | Caw | caw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | vocative |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · perfect · progressive | Raven | at Gerda; long property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gerda=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shake | gerund | Raven not said here | Raven's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Raven | now | Caw vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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