Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-fourth Evening, sentence 15
The Moon told me no more; his visit this evening was far too short.
Who acts: Moon, visit · What happens: tell, be, visit · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-fourth 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, visit), 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 Moon | det |
| 2 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 told | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 short | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 visit | nmod:poss |
| 9 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 short | nsubj |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 evening | det |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 short | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 short | cop |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 short | advmod |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 short | advmod |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 told | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Moon | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Moon's visit | far, short property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | visit | Moon | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=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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