Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 187
But to-day two old sparrows and a young one answered with a "peep" and the thrice-repeated scrape with the left foot.
What happens: answer, repeat · To what, where: young one
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 day | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 to | punct |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sparrows | nummod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sparrows | amod |
| 7 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 day | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 one | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | conj |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 one | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 peep | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 peep | det |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 peep | punct |
| 16 | peep | peep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obl |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 peep | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 scrape | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 scrape | det |
| 20 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 scrape | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 thrice | punct |
| 22 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 scrape | amod |
| 23 | scrape | scrape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 peep | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 foot | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 foot | det |
| 26 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 foot | amod |
| 27 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 scrape | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | participle | a young one not said here | with a peep and the thrice repeated scrape with the left foot | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | repeat | participle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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