Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 36
"I went away," continued the Moon, "and looked through the windows in the aunt's house.
Who acts: editor, I · What happens: go away, continue, look · To what, where: Moon
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (editor, I), 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 | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 7 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Moon | det |
| 9 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 continued | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 looked | cc |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 windows | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 windows | det |
| 16 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 looked | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 aunt | det |
| 19 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 house | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 aunt | case |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 windows | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away in a quote | past | editor | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | I not said here | the Moon | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent moon=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | past | editor not said here | through the windows in the aunt's house | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme |
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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