Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 77
The carved trumpeters blew "Tanta-ra-ra.
Who acts: carved trumpeters · What happens: carve, blow · To what, where: Tanta ra ra
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 (carved trumpeters), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trumpeters | det |
| 2 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 trumpeters | amod |
| 3 | trumpeters | trumpeter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blew | nsubj |
| 4 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ra | punct |
| 6 | Tanta | Tanta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ra | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tanta | punct |
| 8 | ra | ra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ra | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ra | punct |
| 10 | ra | ra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blew | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | blow | past | the carved trumpeters | Tanta ra ra | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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