Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 235
They did not scream, as if they knew that at a burial silence should be observed.
Who acts: anniversaries · What happens: not scream, know, observe · To what, where: burial silence
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 (anniversaries), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scream | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scream | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 scream | advmod |
| 4 | scream | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 knew | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 knew | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scream | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 observed | mark |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 silence | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 silence | det |
| 13 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 silence | compound |
| 14 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 observed | obl |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 observed | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 observed | aux:pass |
| 17 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 knew | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not scream speech: express | past · do-support | anniversaries = anniversary | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | anniversaries = anniversary | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | observe | should · passive | anniversaries = anniversary not said here | a burial silence | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
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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