Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 112
Already a new emperor had been chosen and the people who stood in the street asked the lord-in-waiting how the old emperor was; but he only said, "Pooh!" and shook his head.
Who acts: people, emperor · What happens: choose, stand, ask, wait, say, shake · To what, where: new emperor, street, lord, head · 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 (people, 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 | Already | already | ADV | _ | 7 chosen | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 emperor | det |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 emperor | amod |
| 4 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chosen | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 chosen | aux:pass |
| 7 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 people | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 street | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 street | det |
| 15 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chosen | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lord | det |
| 18 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 waiting | punct |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 waiting | mark |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 in | punct |
| 22 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 lord | parataxis |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 waiting | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 emperor | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 emperor | amod |
| 26 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 was | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 how | advcl:relcl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 said | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 said | nsubj |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 said | advmod |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 asked | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Pooh | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Pooh | punct |
| 35 | Pooh | Pooh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 said | parataxis |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 Pooh | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Pooh | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 shook | cc |
| 39 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 asked | conj |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 head | nmod:poss |
| 41 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 shook | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · perfect · passive | a new emperor | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | the people | the street | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in street=Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the people | the lord | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lord=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | shake | past | the people not said here | emperor's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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