Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 21
“Prude!” exclaimed the collar; and then it was taken out of the washing-tub.
Who acts: Prude · What happens: exclaim, take out · To what, where: collar, it, washing tub
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prude), 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 | _ | 2 Prude | punct |
| 2 | Prude | prude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prude | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prude | punct |
| 5 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 collar | det |
| 7 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 taken | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 taken | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 taken | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 taken | aux:pass |
| 13 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 exclaimed | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 tub | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tub | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tub | det |
| 17 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tub | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 washing | punct |
| 19 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Prude | the collar | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent collar=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take out | past · passive | it | the washing tub | then | tree rules |
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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