Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 100
This fine tirade sounded, however, to the ungodly sailor-boy like a mere “Pippi-pi.”
Who acts: fine tirade · What happens: sound
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine tirade), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 tirade | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tirade | amod |
| 3 | tirade | tirade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounded | nsubj |
| 4 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 4 sounded | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 boy | punct |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 boy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 10 | ungodly | ungodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boy | amod |
| 11 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boy | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 sailor | punct |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounded | parataxis |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 mere | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mere | det |
| 16 | mere | mere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boy | nmod |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 pi | punct |
| 18 | Pippi | Pippi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 pi | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Pippi | punct |
| 20 | pi | pi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mere | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 boy | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | this fine tirade | however property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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