Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 18
"What can that be now?" said Ole-Luk-Oie, going to the table and pulling out the drawer.
Who acts: that, Ole · What happens: be, say, go, pull out · To what, where: table, drawer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Ole), 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 | _ | 3 can | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 can | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 now | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 now | cop |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | _ | 3 can | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 can | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 can | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Luk | punct |
| 12 | Luk | Luk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ole | conj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Oie | punct |
| 14 | Oie | Oie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ole | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 table | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 table | det |
| 19 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 going | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pulling | cc |
| 21 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 going | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 pulling | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 drawer | det |
| 24 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pulling | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | that | now property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Ole and Luk and Oie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | gerund | the table | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to table=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | pull out | gerund | the drawer | tree rules |
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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