Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 114
Away, away," barked the hoarse yard-dog.
What happens: bark · To what, where: hoarse yard dog
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: 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 | _ | 6 barked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 away | punct |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Away | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Away | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 barked | punct |
| 6 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 8 | hoarse | hoarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dog | amod |
| 9 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dog | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 yard | punct |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 barked | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 barked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark in a quote | past | the hoarse yard dog | away property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
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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