Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 105
Whir-r-r-r" went all the wheels, running round, and then the music stopped.
Who acts: Whir r, music · What happens: go, run, stop · To what, where: wheels
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whir r, music), 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 | Whir | whir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 r | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whir | punct |
| 3 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 r | punct |
| 5 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 r | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 r | punct |
| 7 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 r | appos |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 r | punct |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 wheels | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wheels | det |
| 12 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 running | punct |
| 14 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 running | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stopped | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stopped | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 stopped | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 music | det |
| 20 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stopped | nsubj |
| 21 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | Whir r | all wheels | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wheel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run in a quote | gerund | Whir r not said here | round property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop in a quote | past | the music | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «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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