Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 114
Will you be quiet!” screamed the lady of the house, covering the cage with an embroidered white pocket handkerchief.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, scream, cover, embroider · To what, where: lady, cage
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 (you), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 quiet | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 quiet | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 quiet | cop |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 screamed | advcl |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 quiet | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 quiet | punct |
| 7 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 screamed | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lady | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 covering | punct |
| 14 | covering | cover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 screamed | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cage | det |
| 16 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 covering | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 handkerchief | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 handkerchief | det |
| 19 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 handkerchief | amod |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 handkerchief | amod |
| 21 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 handkerchief | compound | ||
| 22 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 covering | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | you | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scream speech: express in a quote | past | the lady of the house | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cover in a quote | gerund | the cage | with a embroidered white pocket handkerchief | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent cage=Destination with handkerchief=Theme | ||||
| 4 | embroider in a quote | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «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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