Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 60
I opened it instantly and read: I laughed and wept.
Who acts: I · What happens: open, read, laugh, weep · To what, where: letter
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | obj |
| 4 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 2 opened | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 read | cc |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughed | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 laughed | nsubj |
| 9 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wept | cc |
| 11 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 laughed | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | I | letter | instantly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 2 | read | infinitive | I not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | laugh | past | I | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | weep | past | I not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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