Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 97
In the first moment of fear, he called, indeed, as loud as he could--“You impudent little blackguard!
Who acts: boy, You · What happens: call, blackguard · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boy, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fear | case |
| 6 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moment | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 moment | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 loud | punct |
| 11 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 14 loud | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 loud | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 loud | advmod |
| 14 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 called | xcomp |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 could | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 could | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 loud | advcl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 blackguard | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 blackguard | punct |
| 20 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 blackguard | nsubj |
| 21 | impudent | impudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 blackguard | amod |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 blackguard | amod |
| 23 | blackguard | blackguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: express | past | boy | moment | loud property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | blackguard in a quote | You | tree rules |
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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