Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 62
As it was all quiet, they peeped out.
Who acts: room, legs · What happens: be, peep out
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 (room, legs), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 quiet | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 quiet | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quiet | cop |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 quiet | advmod |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 peeped | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 peeped | nsubj |
| 8 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quiet | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 peeped | compound:prt |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | room | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | peep out | past | legs = leg | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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