Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 44
When the chimney-sweep saw that she was quite firm, he said, "My way is through the stove and up the chimney.
Who acts: chimney sweep, sweep, two, way · What happens: see, be, say · To what, where: stove · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (chimney sweep, sweep, two, way), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sweep | det |
| 3 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sweep | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 chimney | punct |
| 5 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 firm | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 firm | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 firm | cop |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 firm | advmod |
| 11 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stove | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 stove | punct |
| 17 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 way | nmod:poss |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stove | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 stove | cop |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 stove | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stove | det |
| 22 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 chimney | cc |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 chimney | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 chimney | det |
| 26 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stove | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the chimney sweep | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | sweep | firm property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | two | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | My way | the stove and the chimney | tree rules |
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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