Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, sentence 7
The doll must certainly have been crying too, for she stretched out her arms among the green branches, and looked quite mournful.
Who acts: doll, Moon · What happens: cry, stretch out, look · To what, where: arms
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 (doll, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 doll | det |
| 2 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crying | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 crying | aux |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 crying | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 crying | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 crying | aux |
| 7 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 crying | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stretched | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 stretched | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stretched | nsubj |
| 12 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 crying | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 stretched | compound:prt |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arms | nmod:poss |
| 15 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stretched | obj |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 branches | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 branches | det |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 branches | amod |
| 19 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stretched | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 looked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 looked | cc |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stretched | conj |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 24 mournful | advmod |
| 24 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 looked | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 crying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | must · perfect · progressive | the doll | certainly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stretch out | past | Moon | Moon's arms | among the green branches | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | |||
| 3 | look | past | Moon not said here | mournful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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