Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 146
I ran up, and ran down, peeped into the highest windows, into the saloons, and on the roofs, I peeped in where no one could peep, and I saw what no one else saw, what no one else should see!
Who acts: I, one · What happens: run up, run down, peep, see · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one), 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 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ran | cc |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 ran | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 peeped | punct |
| 9 | peeped | peep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ran | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 windows | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 windows | det |
| 12 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 windows | amod |
| 13 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 peeped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saloons | punct |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 saloons | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 saloons | det |
| 17 | saloons | saloon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 peeped | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 peeped | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 peeped | cc |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 roofs | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 roofs | det |
| 22 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 peeped | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 roofs | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 peeped | nsubj |
| 25 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 where | case |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 peeped | obl |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 peep | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 peep | aux |
| 31 | peep | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 where | advcl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 saw | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 saw | cc |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 saw | nsubj |
| 35 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | parataxis |
| 36 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 40 saw | obj |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 one | det |
| 38 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 saw | nsubj |
| 39 | else | else | ADV | _ | 38 one | advmod |
| 40 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 saw | ccomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 see | punct |
| 42 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 47 see | obj |
| 43 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 44 one | det |
| 44 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 see | nsubj |
| 45 | else | else | ADV | _ | 44 one | advmod |
| 46 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 see | aux |
| 47 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 saw | conj |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | I | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run down | past | I not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | peep | participle | I not said here | into the saloons; into the highest windows | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into window=Theme | ||||
| 4 | peep | past | I | on the roofs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on roof=Theme | ||||
| 5 | peep | could | no one | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | see | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | see | past | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | see | should | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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