Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, sentence 22
Did you laugh at the duck too?' she asked; and it seemed as if the doll shook her head."
Who acts: you, duck, it, doll · What happens: laugh, ask, seem, shake · To what, where: head · 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 (you, duck, it, doll), 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laugh | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 laugh | nsubj |
| 3 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 duck | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 duck | det |
| 6 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laugh | obl |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 laugh | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 laugh | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 laugh | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seemed | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 shook | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 shook | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 doll | det |
| 19 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shook | nsubj |
| 20 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seemed | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shook | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past · do-support | you | at the duck | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | duck | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shake | past | the doll | duck's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=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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