Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 6
I am cold, and I'm so wet!” exclaimed suddenly a child that stood crying at the door and knocking for admittance, while the rain poured down, and the wind made all the windows rattle.
Who acts: I, good old poet, child, rain, wind, windows · What happens: be, exclaim, stand, cry, knock, pour down · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, good old poet, child, rain), 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 cold | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cold | cop |
| 3 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wet | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wet | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wet | nsubj |
| 7 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wet | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 wet | advmod |
| 9 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cold | parataxis |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 wet | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cold | punct |
| 12 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 cold | conj |
| 13 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 exclaimed | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suddenly | nsubj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 child | acl:relcl |
| 18 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 stood | xcomp |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crying | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 knocking | cc |
| 23 | knocking | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 crying | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 admittance | case |
| 25 | admittance | admittance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knocking | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 poured | punct |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 poured | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rain | det |
| 29 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 poured | nsubj |
| 30 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 stood | parataxis |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 poured | compound:prt |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 made | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 made | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 wind | det |
| 35 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 made | nsubj |
| 36 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 poured | conj |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 windows | det:predet |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 windows | det |
| 39 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 rattle | nsubj |
| 40 | rattle | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 made | ccomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | wet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | participle | the good old poet = poet not said here | suddenly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stand in a quote | past | a child | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express in a quote | gerund | a child not said here | the door | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location | ||||
| 6 | knock in a quote | gerund | a child not said here | for admittance | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | pour down in a quote | participle | the rain | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 8 | make in a quote | past | the wind | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | rattle in a quote | present | all windows | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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