Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 28
Tanta-ra-ra, the little boy is coming; Tanta-ra-ra, the little boy is coming."
Who acts: little boy · What happens: come
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 (little boy), 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 | Tanta | Tanta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ra | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tanta | punct |
| 3 | ra | ra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ra | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ra | punct |
| 5 | ra | ra | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 coming | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boy | amod |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coming | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 coming | aux |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 ra | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ra | punct |
| 13 | Tanta | Tanta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 ra | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tanta | punct |
| 15 | ra | ra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ra | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ra | punct |
| 17 | ra | ra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ra | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 coming | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 boy | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 boy | amod |
| 21 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 coming | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 coming | aux |
| 23 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 ra | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 ra | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 ra | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · progressive | the little boy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present · progressive | the little boy | 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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