Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 85
Then Hjalmar went to the hen-house; and, opening the door, called to the stork.
Who acts: Hjalmar · What happens: go, open, call · To what, where: hen house, door, stork · 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 (Hjalmar), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 6 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 hen | punct |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 opening | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opening | punct |
| 12 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opening | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 opening | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 stork | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stork | det |
| 19 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Hjalmar | the hen house | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | open | gerund | Hjalmar not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | the stork | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to stork=Recipient |
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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