Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 15
He was quite hoarse, and could not pronounce "Bow wow" properly.
Who acts: dog · What happens: be, not pronounce · To what, where: Bow wow
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 (dog), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hoarse | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hoarse | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 hoarse | advmod |
| 4 | hoarse | hoarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pronounce | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pronounce | cc |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pronounce | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 pronounce | advmod |
| 9 | pronounce | pronounce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hoarse | conj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wow | punct |
| 11 | Bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wow | compound |
| 12 | wow | wow | NOUN | _ | 9 pronounce | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wow | punct |
| 14 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 9 pronounce | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hoarse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | dog | hoarse property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not pronounce | could | dog not said here | Bow wow | properly property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wow=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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