Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 77
Hiss-s-s, hiss-s-s."
Who acts: -s · What happens: hiss · To what, where: -s -s
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (-s), 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 | Hiss | hiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 -s | nmod:poss |
| 2 | -s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Hiss | case |
| 3 | -s | - | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hiss | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 -s | punct |
| 5 | hiss | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | -s | - | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 -s | compound |
| 7 | -s | - | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hiss | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hiss | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hiss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hiss | present | Hiss's -s | -s -s | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent -=Topic |
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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