Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 127
Oh dear, what was that?" she exclaimed, as something pricked her.
Who acts: garden, something · What happens: be, exclaim, prick · To what, where: that, garden
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden, something), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 2 dear | discourse |
| 2 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 dear | parataxis |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 that | cop |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 what | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 dear | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 dear | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 10 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pricked | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 pricked | mark |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 pricked | nsubj |
| 14 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 exclaimed | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pricked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | garden | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | prick in a quote | past | something | garden | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient |
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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