Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 7
"Poor creature!" said the poet, and got up and opened the door.
Who acts: Poor creature · What happens: say, get up, open · To what, where: poet, door · 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 (Poor creature), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 creature | punct |
| 2 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 creature | amod |
| 3 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 creature | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 creature | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 poet | det |
| 8 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 got | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 opened | cc |
| 14 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 opened | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Poor creature | the poet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent poet=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get up | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | open | past | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
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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