Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 3
How that great red thing up there is staring at me!"
Who acts: that, great red thing · What happens: thing, stare
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 (that, great red thing), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 staring | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 staring | nsubj |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 there | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 thing | advmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 staring | aux |
| 9 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 staring | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 staring | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 staring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thing | that | there | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stare | present · progressive | great red thing | at me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=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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