Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 45
"Let it go farther," shrieked the bats, and the hens clucked and the cocks crowed, "Let it go farther!
Who acts: you, Sleep, hens, cocks · What happens: let, go, shriek, cluck, crow · To what, where: Sleep, bats · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Sleep, hens, cocks), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shrieked | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 shrieked | punct |
| 8 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bats | det |
| 10 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shrieked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clucked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 clucked | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hens | det |
| 14 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 clucked | nsubj |
| 15 | clucked | cluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shrieked | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 crowed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cocks | det |
| 18 | cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 crowed | nsubj |
| 19 | crowed | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 clucked | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Let | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Let | punct |
| 22 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 crowed | ccomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 Let | obj |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 Let | xcomp |
| 25 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 go | advmod |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Sleep | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | Sleep not said here | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shriek | past | you not said here | the bats | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cluck | past | the hens | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | crow | past | the cocks | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | let in a quote | infinitive | the cocks not said here | Sleep | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go in a quote | infinitive | Sleep not said here | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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