Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 49
He did not answer a syllable, but went on eating, and afterwards returned to his work.
Who acts: hand · What happens: not answer, go, eat, return, work · To what, where: syllable
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 answer | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answer | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 answer | advmod |
| 4 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 syllable | det |
| 6 | syllable | syllable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answer | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answer | parataxis |
| 10 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 11 eating | mark |
| 11 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 returned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 returned | cc |
| 14 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 15 returned | advmod |
| 15 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 work | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 work | nmod:poss |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 returned | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert | past · do-support | hand | a syllable | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent syllable=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | past | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | return | past | to hand's work result; afterwards property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to work=Result | |||||
| 5 | work | hand | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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