Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 44
Oh, no,' exclaimed the daughters, 'for he skinned them, cut them in two, and fried them.' '
Who acts: spearer · What happens: exclaim, skin, cut, fry · To what, where: daughters, daughter, two
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spearer), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 exclaimed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 1 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 6 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 daughters | det |
| 8 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 exclaimed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 skinned | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 skinned | nsubj |
| 13 | skinned | skin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 exclaimed | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 skinned | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cut | punct |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 skinned | xcomp |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cut | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 two | case |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 cut | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fried | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fried | cc |
| 22 | fried | fry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fried | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 fried | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 fried | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 fried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | the daughters | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic | |||||
| 2 | skin | past | spearer | daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cut | infinitive | spearer not said here | daughter | two | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 4 | fry | past | daughter | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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