Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 71
Here, she knew, lived the executioner; and she tapped with her finger at the window and said:
Who acts: Mercy · What happens: know, live, tap, say · To what, where: executioner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mercy), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 knew | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 executioner | det |
| 8 | executioner | executioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 tapped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tapped | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tapped | nsubj |
| 12 | tapped | tap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 finger | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 finger | nmod:poss |
| 15 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tapped | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 window | det |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tapped | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tapped | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Mercy | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | live | past | Mercy not said here | the executioner | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme executioner=Location | ||||
| 3 | tap | past | Mercy | with Mercy's finger; at the window | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with finger=Instrument at window=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Mercy not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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