Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 39
"How is this?" he exclaimed, as he stood in the sunshine. "
Who acts: this, man · What happens: be, exclaim, stand · To what, where: this, sunshine · 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 (this, man), 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 this | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 this | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 this | cop |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 this | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 this | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 stood | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 exclaimed | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sunshine | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sunshine | det |
| 15 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | this | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | man | the sunshine | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sunshine=Location |
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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