Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 26
The poet shook his head, the copying-clerk did the same.
Who acts: poet, copying clerk · What happens: shake, do · To what, where: head, same
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 (poet, copying clerk), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 poet | det |
| 2 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 clerk | det |
| 8 | copying | copying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clerk | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 copying | punct |
| 10 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 same | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 did | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the poet | Clerk's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the copying clerk | the same | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
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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