Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 50
"Now we are in the chimney," said he; "and look, there is a beautiful star shining above it."
Who acts: we, chimney, beautiful star · What happens: be, say, look, shine · To what, where: chimney, star · 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 (we, chimney, beautiful star), 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 | _ | 7 chimney | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 chimney | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 chimney | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 chimney | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 chimney | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chimney | det |
| 7 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chimney | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 chimney | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 look | cc |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 look | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 star | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 star | amod |
| 21 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 22 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 star | acl |
| 23 | above | above | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 shining | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | we | the chimney | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the chimney | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | the chimney not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | a beautiful star | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shine in a quote | gerund | a beautiful star not said here | star | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above it=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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