Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 145
Yes, he was still boiling, until he boiled over in the exclamation, "Lunacy! porter! madness!"
Who acts: sun · What happens: boil, boil over · To what, where: porter madness
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 boiling | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 boiling | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 boiling | aux |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 boiling | advmod |
| 6 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 boiled | punct |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 boiled | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 boiled | nsubj |
| 10 | boiled | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 boiling | parataxis |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 boiled | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 exclamation | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 exclamation | det |
| 14 | exclamation | exclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 madness | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 exclamation | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Lunacy | punct |
| 17 | Lunacy | Lunacy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 porter | compound |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 Lunacy | punct |
| 19 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 madness | compound |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 porter | punct |
| 21 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boiled | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 madness | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 madness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | past · progressive | sun | still | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | boil over | past | sun | porter madness | over property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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