Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 91
“Excellenza, miserabili!” sighed they, thrusting forth their deformed limbs to view.
Who acts: Excellenza · What happens: sigh, thrust, deform, view · To what, where: arms, deformed limbs
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 (Excellenza), 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 Excellenza | punct |
| 2 | Excellenza | Excellenza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sighed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 miserabili | punct |
| 4 | miserabili | miserabili | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Excellenza | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excellenza | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Excellenza | punct |
| 7 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sighed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thrusting | punct |
| 10 | thrusting | thrust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sighed | advcl |
| 11 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 10 thrusting | advmod |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | deformed | deform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 limbs | amod |
| 14 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thrusting | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 view | mark |
| 16 | view | view | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thrusting | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | Excellenza and miserabili | arms = arm | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 2 | thrust | gerund | Excellenza and miserabili not said here | arms's deformed limbs | forth property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limb=Theme | |||
| 3 | deform | participle | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | view | to-infinitive | Excellenza and miserabili not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: 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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