Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 2
“That was a dreadful snowstorm”; and he sighed again, and was silent.
Who acts: That, he · What happens: be, sigh · To what, where: dreadful snowstorm
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 (That, he), 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 | _ | 6 snowstorm | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 snowstorm | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 snowstorm | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 snowstorm | det |
| 5 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 snowstorm | amod |
| 6 | snowstorm | snowstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 snowstorm | punct |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 sighed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sighed | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sighed | nsubj |
| 11 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 snowstorm | conj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 sighed | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 silent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 silent | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 silent | cop |
| 16 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sighed | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 snowstorm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | That | a dreadful snowstorm | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sigh | past | he | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | he not said here | silent property | 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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