Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 33
"Tsing-pe!" cried the lord-in-waiting, and again he ran up and down stairs, through all the halls and corridors; and half the court ran with him, for they did not like the idea of being trampled upon.
Who acts: Tsing pe, pe, court, lords · What happens: cry, run up, run, not like, trample · To what, where: lord, halls, idea
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 (Tsing pe, pe, court, lords), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pe | punct |
| 2 | Tsing | tsing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pe | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tsing | punct |
| 4 | pe | pe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 pe | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pe | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lord | det |
| 9 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 waiting | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 waiting | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 in | punct |
| 13 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lord | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ran | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ran | cc |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 ran | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ran | nsubj |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 ran | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stairs | cc |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 stairs | case |
| 22 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ran | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 halls | punct |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 halls | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 halls | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 halls | det |
| 27 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ran | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 corridors | cc |
| 29 | corridors | corridor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 halls | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 ran | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 half | cc |
| 32 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 34 court | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 court | det |
| 34 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ran | nsubj |
| 35 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 ran | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 like | punct |
| 39 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 43 like | mark |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 like | nsubj |
| 41 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 like | aux |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 like | advmod |
| 43 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 ran | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 idea | det |
| 45 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 like | obj |
| 46 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 48 trampled | mark |
| 47 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 trampled | aux:pass |
| 48 | trampled | trample | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 idea | acl |
| 49 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 48 trampled | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Tsing pe | the lord | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Topic | ||||
| 2 | run up | past | pe | all halls and corridors | again | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hall=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | run | past | half court | with pe | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with he=Material | ||||
| 4 | not like | past · do-support | lords = lord | the idea | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot idea=Theme | ||||
| 5 | trample | gerund · passive | the idea not said here | tree rules |
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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