Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 51
She nodded and beckoned to him, and then sang the little verses she had herself composed and set to him,--
Who acts: nurse · What happens: nod, beckon, sing, have, compose, set · To what, where: Hjalmar, little verses, nurse
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 (nurse), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 nodded | nsubj |
| 2 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 beckoned | cc |
| 4 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 nodded | conj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beckoned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sang | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sang | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 sang | advmod |
| 10 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 nodded | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 verses | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 verses | amod |
| 13 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sang | obj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 verses | acl:relcl |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 had | obj |
| 17 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 composed | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 set | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sang | punct |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | nurse | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beckon | past | nurse not said here | Hjalmar | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | nurse not said here | the little verses | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location verse=Theme | |||
| 4 | have | past | nurse | nurse | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | compose | participle | nurse not said here | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | set | infinitive | nurse not said here | Hjalmar | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: 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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