Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 48
"Do be reasonable, old lamp," said the wind, puffing away.
Who acts: wind · What happens: be, say, puff away · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind), 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 | _ | 4 reasonable | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 reasonable | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reasonable | cop |
| 4 | reasonable | reasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lamp | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lamp | amod |
| 7 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reasonable | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reasonable | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 reasonable | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wind | det |
| 12 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 puffing | punct |
| 14 | puffing | puff | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 puffing | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | reasonable property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the wind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | puff away | gerund | the wind not said here | away property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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