Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 83
Look at her" cried her little ones, as she approached the nest. "
Who acts: you, fly · What happens: look, cry, approach · To what, where: little ones, nest · 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 (you, fly), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 her | case |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Look | obl |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ones | nmod:poss |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ones | amod |
| 8 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 approached | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 approached | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 approached | nsubj |
| 12 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nest | det |
| 14 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 approached | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | at fly | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | fly's little ones | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||||
| 3 | approach in a quote | past | fly | the nest | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme |
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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