Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 42
"No, that is only a cow lowing," said the little girl; "we are a long way from the place yet."
Who acts: that, cow lowing, we · What happens: be, say · To what, where: cow lowing, little girl, long way, place · 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 (that, cow lowing, we), 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 | _ | 9 lowing | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 lowing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 lowing | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lowing | cop |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 lowing | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lowing | det |
| 8 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lowing | compound |
| 9 | lowing | lowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lowing | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lowing | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 way | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 way | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 way | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 way | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 way | amod |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 way | nmod |
| 26 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 22 way | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 way | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | a cow lowing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a cow lowing | the little girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | we | a long way | the place | yet | 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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