Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 28
Too-whoo!" they both hooted into the neighbour's dove-cot to the doves inside. "
Who acts: children · What happens: hoot · To what, where: whoo, dove cot
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 3 whoo | advmod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Too | punct |
| 3 | whoo | whoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hooted | obl |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 whoo | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 whoo | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hooted | nsubj |
| 7 | both | both | ADV | _ | 8 hooted | advmod |
| 8 | hooted | hoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 cot | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 neighbour | det |
| 11 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cot | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 neighbour | case |
| 13 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cot | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 dove | punct |
| 15 | cot | cot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hooted | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 doves | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 doves | det |
| 18 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hooted | obl |
| 19 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 18 doves | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hooted | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hooted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hoot in a quote | past | children = child | whoo | the neighbour's dove cot | to the doves; both property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into cot=Recipient |
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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