Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 103
It was to be one "Peep!" and three scratches on the ground with the left foot.
Who acts: sign · What happens: be · To what, where: one, one Peep
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sign), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Peep | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Peep | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 one | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 one | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Peep | nummod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Peep | punct |
| 7 | Peep | peep | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Peep | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Peep | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 scratches | cc |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 scratches | nummod |
| 12 | scratches | scratch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Peep | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scratches | nmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 foot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 foot | det |
| 18 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 foot | amod |
| 19 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ground | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Peep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | to-infinitive | one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | sign | one Peep and three scratches on the ground with the left foot | tree rules |
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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