Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 24
He made horrible grimaces, and Soren wept and implored little Marie to interfere.
Who acts: Jon, Soren · What happens: make, weep, implore, interfere · To what, where: horrible grimaces, little Marie
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 (Jon, Soren), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grimaces | amod |
| 4 | grimaces | grimace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wept | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wept | cc |
| 7 | Soren | Soren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 wept | nsubj |
| 8 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 implored | cc |
| 10 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Marie | amod |
| 12 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 implored | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 interfere | mark |
| 14 | interfere | interfere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 implored | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Jon | horrible grimaces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grimace=Product | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | Soren | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | implore | past | Jon not said here | little Marie | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marie=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | interfere | to-infinitive | Jon not said here | tree rules |
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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