Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 127
"What kind of creatures are those little grey ones that run about behind us?" asked an old pigeon, with red and green in her eyes. "
Who acts: kind, little grey ones, old pigeon · What happens: be, run about, ask · To what, where: little grey ones · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (kind, little grey ones, old pigeon), 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 | _ | 18 asked | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 kind | det |
| 3 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ones | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 creatures | case |
| 5 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kind | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ones | cop |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 ones | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ones | amod |
| 9 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ones | amod |
| 10 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 run | nsubj |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ones | acl:relcl |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 run | advmod |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 run | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 run | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 run | punct |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pigeon | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pigeon | amod |
| 21 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 red | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 red | case |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 asked | ccomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 green | cc |
| 26 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 red | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 eyes | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 red | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 red | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | what kind of creatures | that little grey ones | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run about in a quote | present | that little grey ones | behind us; about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind we=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | a old pigeon | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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