Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 77
"Who does that stand for?" thought he, and then came another and another.
What happens: stand, think, come · To what, where: tuft · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 5 stand | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 stand | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stand | aux |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 stand | nsubj |
| 5 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 stand | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 stand | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stand | punct |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 came | advmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | parataxis |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 came | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 another | cc |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 another | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | present · do-support | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | tuft | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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