Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 39
The girl laughed, and nodded at the Snow Man, and then tripped away over the snow with her friend.
Who acts: girl · What happens: laugh, nod, trip away · To what, where: snow
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 (girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 nodded | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 nodded | cc |
| 6 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Man | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Man | det |
| 9 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Man | compound |
| 10 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 nodded | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tripped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tripped | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 tripped | advmod |
| 14 | tripped | trip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 tripped | advmod |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 snow | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 snow | det |
| 18 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tripped | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 friend | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friend | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tripped | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the girl | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | nod | past | the girl not said here | at the Snow Man | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | trip away | past | the girl not said here | the snow | then | with girl's friend; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over snow=Trajectory |
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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