Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 15
I and Love," he cried, "that would have an absurd look.
Who acts: Pulcinella, that · What happens: cry, have · To what, where: absurd look
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pulcinella, that), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Love | cc |
| 3 | Love | Love | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 I | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 have | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 look | det |
| 14 | absurd | absurd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 look | amod |
| 15 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Pulcinella | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | would | that | a absurd look | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient |
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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