Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 9
Now we shall hear how Ole-Luk-Oie came every night during a whole week to the little boy named Hjalmar, and what he told him.
Who acts: we, Ole, Oie · What happens: hear, come, name, tell · To what, where: little boy, Hjalmar · 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 (we, Ole, Oie), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hear | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | aux |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 Ole | advmod |
| 6 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 came | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Luk | punct |
| 8 | Luk | Luk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Oie | punct |
| 10 | Oie | Oie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Luk | conj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | parataxis |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 night | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | during | during | ADP | _ | 17 week | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 week | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 week | amod |
| 17 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 boy | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 boy | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 boy | amod |
| 21 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 week | nmod |
| 22 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 boy | acl |
| 23 | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 named | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 what | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 what | cc |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 came | parataxis |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 told | nsubj |
| 28 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 what | acl:relcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 told | iobj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | shall | we | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Ole | night; week | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | name | participle | the little boy not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Oie | Hjalmar | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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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