Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 92
I will go to the wars!” shouted the pewter soldier as loud as he could, and threw himself off the drawers right down on the floor.
Who acts: I, man · What happens: go, shout, throw · To what, where: pewter soldier, man, floor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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 | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 wars | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wars | det |
| 6 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouted | punct |
| 9 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soldier | det |
| 11 | pewter | pewter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 soldier | amod |
| 12 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shouted | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 loud | advmod |
| 14 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 soldier | amod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 could | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 could | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 loud | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 threw | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 threw | cc |
| 20 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 threw | obj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 drawers | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 drawers | det |
| 24 | drawers | drawer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 threw | obl |
| 25 | right | right | ADV | _ | 26 down | advmod |
| 26 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 threw | advmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 floor | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 floor | det |
| 29 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 threw | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | to the wars | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express in a quote | past | man not said here | the pewter soldier | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic | ||||
| 3 | throw in a quote | past | man | the floor | off the drawers; down property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on floor=Destination |
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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