Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 108
Ah, now I understand why he had such a great longing for the stove," said the yard-dog. "
Who acts: I, Man · What happens: understand, have, say · To what, where: great longing, yard dog · 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 (I, Man), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 understand | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 understand | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 understand | nsubj |
| 5 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 had | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | advcl |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 longing | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 longing | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 longing | amod |
| 12 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 stove | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stove | det |
| 15 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 longing | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 understand | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dog | det |
| 20 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dog | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 yard | punct |
| 22 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | present | I | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Man | such great longing | for the stove | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Man not said here | the yard dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dog=Topic |
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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