Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 5
I am so cold and wet through," called a little child outside.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, call · To what, where: little child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Saucy Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 cold | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 cold | advmod |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wet | cc |
| 6 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cold | conj |
| 7 | through | through | ADV | _ | 6 wet | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cold | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 child | amod |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 14 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 10 called | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | I not said here | through property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | call in a quote | participle | a little child | outside property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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