Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 11
The scene-shifters whispered to one another, and I followed the poor fellow home to his room.
Who acts: scene shifters, I · What happens: whisper, follow · To what, where: one, poor fellow home, room
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scene shifters, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shifters | det |
| 2 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shifters | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 scene | punct |
| 4 | shifters | shifter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 whispered | nsubj |
| 5 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 whispered | obl |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 followed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 followed | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 followed | nsubj |
| 12 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 whispered | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 home | det |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 home | amod |
| 15 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 home | amod |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 followed | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 room | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 room | nmod:poss |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 followed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | the scene shifters | one | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | I | the poor fellow home | hero's room | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent home=Theme to room=Trajectory |
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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