Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 102
Away, away," he barked and then he added, "the weather is going to change."
Who acts: Man, weather · What happens: bark, add, go, change · 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 (Man, weather), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 7 barked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 away | punct |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Away | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Away | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 barked | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 barked | nsubj |
| 7 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 added | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 added | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 added | nsubj |
| 11 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 barked | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 weather | det |
| 15 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 added | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 change | mark |
| 19 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 going | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark in a quote | past | Man | away property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | Man | then | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | the weather | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | change | to-infinitive | the weather not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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