Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 154
No one was there; the third sparrow, seeing this, flew still farther into the room, exclaiming, "All or nothing!
Who acts: one, third sparrow · What happens: be, see, fly, exclaim · To what, where: this, room
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 (one, third sparrow), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sparrow | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 one | acl:relcl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 sparrow | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sparrow | det |
| 7 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 sparrow | amod |
| 8 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seeing | punct |
| 10 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 sparrow | acl |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 seeing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flew | punct |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sparrow | parataxis |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 farther | advmod |
| 15 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 flew | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flew | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 exclaiming | punct |
| 20 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 flew | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 All | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 All | punct |
| 23 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 exclaiming | advmod |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 nothing | cc |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 All | conj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 sparrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | no one not said here | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the third sparrow not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | into the room result; far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result | |||||
| 4 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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