Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 84
What a terrible uproar they made, while they were having such fun among themselves!
Who acts: terrible uproar, ducks · What happens: make, have · To what, where: such fun
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 (terrible uproar, ducks), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 uproar | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 uproar | det |
| 3 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 uproar | amod |
| 4 | uproar | uproar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 having | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 having | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 having | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 having | aux |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 made | conj |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fun | amod |
| 13 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 having | obj |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 themselves | case |
| 15 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 having | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | what terrible uproar | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | have | past · progressive | ducks = duck | such fun | among ducks = duck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=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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