Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 48
The words were scarcely spoken, when Jurgen's hand sank down.
Who acts: hand · What happens: speak, sink down · To what, where: words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoken | aux:pass |
| 4 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 5 spoken | advmod |
| 5 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sank | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 sank | advmod |
| 8 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Jurgen | case |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sank | nsubj |
| 11 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoken | parataxis |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 sank | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · passive | the words | scarcely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sink down | past | Jurgen's hand | down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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