Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-fifth Evening, sentence 3
Ya-hip! ya-hip!' cried a voice.
Who acts: hip ya hip · What happens: cry · To what, where: voice
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hip ya hip), 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 | Ya | Ya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hip | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 hip | punct |
| 3 | hip | hip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hip | compound |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 hip | punct |
| 5 | ya | ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hip | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ya | punct |
| 7 | hip | hip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 hip | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 hip | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | hip ya hip | a voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Topic |
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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