Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 5
He grinned at you, for no one could call it laughing.
Who acts: man, one · What happens: grin, call, laugh · To what, where: cupboard · 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 (man, one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grinned | nsubj |
| 2 | grinned | grin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 grinned | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 call | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 call | mark |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 call | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 call | aux |
| 10 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 grinned | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 call | obj |
| 12 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 call | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grinned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grin | past | man | at you | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call | could | no one | cupboard | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | no one not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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