Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-fifth Evening, sentence 5

Ya-hip! ya-hip' Yes, certainly that was a very different thing to creeping about in the dark narrow chimneys! the air blew so fresh, and he could look over the whole city towards the green wood.

Who acts: that, Ya hip, hip · What happens: be, creep, blow, look · To what, where: different thing, dark narrow chimneys

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 (that, Ya hip, 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	29 blew	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 hip	punct
5	ya	ya	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hip	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 hip	punct
7	hip	hip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hip	appos
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 hip	punct
9	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 hip	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thing	punct
11	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	17 thing	advmod
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 thing	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thing	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 thing	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 different	advmod
16	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hip	conj
18	to	to	SCONJ	_	19 creeping	mark
19	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 thing	advcl
20	about	about	ADP	_	19 creeping	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 chimneys	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 chimneys	det
23	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 chimneys	amod
24	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 chimneys	amod
25	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 creeping	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 hip	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 air	det
28	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 blew	nsubj
29	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 fresh	advmod
31	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 blew	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 look	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 look	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 look	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 look	aux
36	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 blew	conj
37	over	over	ADP	_	40 city	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 city	det
39	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 city	amod
40	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 look	obl
41	towards	towards	ADP	_	44 wood	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 wood	det
43	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 wood	amod
44	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 look	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	a different thing		certainly property	tree rules
2	creep	gerund	that not said here		the dark narrow chimneys		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chimney=Trajectory
3	blow	past	Ya hip and a different thing			fresh property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	look	could	hip			towards the green wood; over the whole city	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over city=Theme

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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