Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 76
Now Miss Glove sings her great song with startling effects:
Who acts: Miss Glove, public · What happens: sing · To what, where: great song
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss Glove, public), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sings | advmod |
| 2 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Glove | compound |
| 3 | Glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sings | nsubj |
| 4 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 song | nmod:poss |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 song | amod |
| 7 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sings | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 effects | case |
| 9 | startling | startling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 effects | amod |
| 10 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sings | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 sings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | Miss Glove | public's great song | now | with startling effects | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||
| 2 | sing | public | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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