Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 28
"Away, away," barked the yard-dog, and then he turned round three times, and crept into his kennel to sleep.
Who acts: dog · What happens: bark, turn round, creep, sleep · To what, where: yard dog, kennel
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Away | punct |
| 2 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 7 barked | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 away | punct |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 Away | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Away | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 barked | punct |
| 7 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 9 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dog | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 yard | punct |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 barked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 turned | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 turned | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 barked | conj |
| 17 | round | round | ADV | _ | 16 turned | advmod |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 times | nummod |
| 19 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 turned | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 crept | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 crept | cc |
| 22 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 barked | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 kennel | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 kennel | nmod:poss |
| 25 | kennel | kennel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crept | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 sleep | mark |
| 27 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 crept | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 barked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark | past | the yard dog | away property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn round | past | dog | then; time | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | creep | past | dog's kennel | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into kennel=Destination | |||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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