Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 82
And old Nanny nodded in the bush, and shouted 'hurrah!' with the rest.”
Who acts: old Nanny · What happens: nod, shout · To what, where: hurrah
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 (old Nanny), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 nodded | cc |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Nanny | amod |
| 3 | Nanny | Nanny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 nodded | nsubj |
| 4 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bush | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bush | det |
| 7 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nodded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shouted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shouted | cc |
| 10 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nodded | conj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 hurrah | punct |
| 12 | hurrah | hurrah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shouted | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 hurrah | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 hurrah | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 rest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rest | det |
| 17 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shouted | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nodded | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | old Nanny | in the bush | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in bush=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | old Nanny not said here | hurrah | with the rest | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic |
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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