Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 55
They could see for a very long distance out into the wide world, and the poor little shepherdess leaned her head on her chimney-sweep's shoulder, and wept till she washed the gilt off her sash; the world was so different to what she expected. "
Who acts: sky, poor little shepherdess, sweep, world · What happens: see, learn, weep, wash, be, expect · To what, where: wide world, head, shoulder, gilt, sash
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 (sky, poor little shepherdess, sweep, world), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 distance | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 distance | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 distance | amod |
| 8 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 12 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 world | amod |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leaned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 leaned | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shepherdess | det |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shepherdess | amod |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shepherdess | amod |
| 19 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaned | nsubj |
| 20 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | parataxis |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaned | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 shoulder | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sweep | nmod:poss |
| 25 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sweep | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 chimney | punct |
| 27 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 sweep | case |
| 29 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaned | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wept | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 wept | cc |
| 32 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 leaned | conj |
| 33 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 35 washed | mark |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 washed | nsubj |
| 35 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 wept | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 gilt | det |
| 37 | gilt | gilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 washed | obj |
| 38 | off | off | ADP | _ | 40 sash | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 sash | nmod:poss |
| 40 | sash | sash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 washed | obl |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 different | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 world | det |
| 43 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 different | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 different | cop |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 different | advmod |
| 46 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 see | parataxis |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 what | case |
| 48 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 different | obl |
| 49 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 expected | nsubj |
| 50 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 what | acl:relcl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | sky | the wide world | for a long distance; out property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | learn | past | the poor little shepherdess | sweep's head | sweep's chimney sweep's shoulder | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | |||
| 3 | weep | past | the poor little shepherdess not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wash | past | sweep | the gilt | sweep's sash | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent gilt=Theme off sash=Source | |||
| 5 | is | past | the world | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | expect | past | sweep | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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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