Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 67
He did not speak a word, but nodded his head, and that meant "yes."
Who acts: Jurgen, that · What happens: not speak, nod, mean · To what, where: word, head · 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 (Jurgen, that), 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 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 speak | advmod |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speak | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nodded | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 nodded | cc |
| 9 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | parataxis |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nodded | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 meant | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 meant | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 meant | nsubj |
| 15 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 nodded | conj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 yes | punct |
| 17 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 15 meant | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | past · do-support | Jurgen | a word | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | nod | past | Jurgen's head | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||||
| 3 | mean | past | that | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yes=Topic |
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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