Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 53
Oh, how the sailors howled and cried out! but I howled louder than they.
Who acts: sailors, I · What happens: howl, cry out
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailors, I), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 howled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 howled | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 howled | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sailors | det |
| 5 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 howled | nsubj |
| 6 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cried | cc |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 howled | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 cried | compound:prt |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 howled | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 howled | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 howled | nsubj |
| 13 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 howled | conj |
| 14 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 howled | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 they | case |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 louder | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 howled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | howl | past | the sailors | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | the sailors not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | howl | past | I | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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