Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-fifth Evening, sentence 8
"'The whole town can see me now,' he exclaimed, 'and the moon can see me now, and the sun too.
Who acts: whole town, town, moon · What happens: see, exclaim · To what, where: town · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (whole town, town, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 town | amod |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 see | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 13 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 exclaimed | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 exclaimed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 moon | det |
| 18 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 exclaimed | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 see | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sun | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sun | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sun | det |
| 26 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exclaimed | conj |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 sun | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | can | the whole town | town | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | town | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | can | the moon | town | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=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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