Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ninth Evening, sentence 24
In the sea,' he whispered, and nodded with a mournful smile. '
Who acts: angekokk · What happens: whisper, nod · To what, where: sea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angekokk), 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 | _ | 3 sea | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 whispered | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sea | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sea | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 whispered | nsubj |
| 7 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nodded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 nodded | cc |
| 10 | nodded | nod | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 whispered | ccomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 smile | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 smile | det |
| 13 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 smile | amod |
| 14 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nodded | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 nodded | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | angekokk | the sea | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | nod | participle | with a mournful smile | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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