Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 87
There was a great squeezing of hands, and talking and questioning.
Who acts: great squeezing · What happens: be, talk, question, squeeze · To what, where: hands
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great squeezing), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 squeezing | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 squeezing | amod |
| 5 | squeezing | squeezing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hands | case |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 squeezing | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 talking | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 talking | cc |
| 10 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 was | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 questioning | cc |
| 12 | questioning | question | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 talking | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great squeezing of hands | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | a great squeezing of hands not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | question speech: other | gerund | a great squeezing of hands not said here | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | squeeze | hands | nom squeezing «act transitive»: of=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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