Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 14
"Away, away," barked the old yard-dog.
What happens: bark · To what, where: old 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Away | punct |
| 2 | Away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 away | punct |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 Away | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 barked | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 barked | punct |
| 7 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Away | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dog | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dog | amod |
| 10 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dog | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 yard | punct |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 barked | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Away | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark | past | the old yard dog | 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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