Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 38
The old Chinaman is coming," cried the little shepherdess in a fright, and down she fell on one knee.
Who acts: old Chinaman, Chinaman · What happens: come, cry, fall · To what, where: little shepherdess, fright, one knee
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Chinaman, Chinaman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Chinaman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Chinaman | amod |
| 3 | Chinaman | Chinaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 coming | aux |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Chinaman | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Chinaman | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Chinaman | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shepherdess | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shepherdess | amod |
| 11 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 fright | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fright | det |
| 14 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fell | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fell | cc |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 fell | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fell | nsubj |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 knee | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 knee | nummod |
| 22 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · progressive | the old Chinaman not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the old Chinaman | the little shepherdess | a fright | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherdess=Topic | |||
| 3 | fall in a quote | past | Chinaman | one knee | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=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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