Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 10
"There it comes again, from the other side," said the Snow Man, who supposed the sun was showing himself once more. "
Who acts: moon, Snow Man, sun · What happens: come, say, suppose, show · To what, where: other side, Man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, Snow Man, sun), 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 | _ | 4 comes | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 comes | expl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 comes | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 side | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 side | amod |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 side | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Man | det |
| 15 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Man | compound |
| 16 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 supposed | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 supposed | nsubj |
| 19 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Man | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sun | det |
| 21 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 showing | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 showing | aux |
| 23 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 supposed | xcomp |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 showing | obj |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 supposed | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | moon | the other side; there | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from side=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Snow Man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | suppose | past | the Snow Man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | show | past · progressive | the sun | Man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |
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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