Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 217
"For each man?" repeated the woman, looking sharply at him.
Who acts: man · What happens: repeat, look · To what, where: woman
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 man | case |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 repeated | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 7 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 repeated | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 repeated | advcl |
| 12 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 11 looking | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looking | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | each man | the woman | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | each man not said here | at man; sharply property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
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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