Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 14
As he was running up stairs, just as he passed the door of the sand-box, he heard a faint piping.
Who acts: George · What happens: run up, pass, hear · To what, where: stairs, door, faint piping
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 running | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 running | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 running | aux |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 heard | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 running | compound:prt |
| 6 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 running | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 passed | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 passed | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 running | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 box | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 box | det |
| 16 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 box | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 sand | punct |
| 18 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 door | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 running | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 piping | det |
| 23 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 piping | amod |
| 24 | piping | piping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past · progressive | George | stairs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stair=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | George | the door of the sand box | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | George | a faint piping | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer piping=Stimulus |
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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