Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 106
The emperor immediately sprang out of bed, and called for his physician; but what could he do?
Who acts: emperor · What happens: spring out, call, do · To what, where: bed · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (emperor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 sprang | advmod |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 called | cc |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sprang | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 physician | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 physician | nmod:poss |
| 13 | physician | physician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 do | cc |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 do | obj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sprang | conj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring out | past | the emperor | bed | immediately property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bed=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the emperor not said here | for emperor's physician | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for physician=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do | could | emperor | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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