Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 126
But they still went on, and Death nodded like a Chinaman to all they said. "
Who acts: chamberlains, Death · What happens: go on, nod, say · To what, where: all · 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 (chamberlains, Death), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nodded | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 nodded | cc |
| 8 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 nodded | nsubj |
| 9 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 Chinaman | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Chinaman | det |
| 12 | Chinaman | Chinaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 nodded | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 nodded | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 all | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | chamberlains = chamberlain | still | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | nod | past | Death | all | like a Chinaman | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to all=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | chamberlains = chamberlain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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