Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 240
"How very terrible," cried the princess; "is he locked up?"
Who acts: princess · What happens: cry, lock up · To what, where: wedding · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | _ | 4 terrible | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 terrible | advmod |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 terrible | advmod |
| 4 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 locked | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 locked | aux:pass |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 locked | nsubj |
| 14 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 terrible | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 locked | compound:prt |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 terrible | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 terrible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lock up in a quote | present · passive | wedding | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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