Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 1
“Chirp, chirp!” sighed he.
Who acts: Chirp · What happens: sigh · To what, where: he
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chirp), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Chirp | punct |
| 2 | Chirp | chirp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sighed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 chirp | punct |
| 4 | chirp | chirp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Chirp | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Chirp | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Chirp | punct |
| 7 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sighed | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | Chirp and chirp | he | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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