Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 239
And the whole family cried, "Brave! brave!" when the old house was pulled down.
Who acts: whole family · What happens: cry, pull down · To what, where: old house
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 (whole family), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cried | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 family | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 family | amod |
| 4 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Brave | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Brave | punct |
| 8 | Brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cried | xcomp |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 brave | punct |
| 10 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Brave | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 brave | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Brave | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 pulled | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 house | amod |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 pulled | aux:pass |
| 18 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cried | advcl |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 pulled | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the whole family | brave property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pull down | past · passive | the old house | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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