Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, sentence 1
"I saw a little girl weeping," said the Moon; "she was weeping over the depravity of the world.
Who acts: Moon · What happens: see, say, weep · To what, where: little girl weeping, depravity · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon), 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 saw | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 weeping | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 weeping | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weeping | compound |
| 7 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Moon | det |
| 12 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 weeping | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 weeping | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 weeping | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 weeping | aux |
| 17 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 depravity | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 depravity | det |
| 20 | depravity | depravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 weeping | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 depravity | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past | the Moon = moon | a little girl weeping | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer weeping=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Moon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | weep in a quote | past · progressive | Moon | the depravity of the world | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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