Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 23
Then the grandmother smoothed his hair and told him some more tales.
Who acts: grandmother · What happens: smooth, tell · To what, where: hair, more tales, window · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 smoothed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grandmother | det |
| 3 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smoothed | nsubj |
| 4 | smoothed | smooth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smoothed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smoothed | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 tales | det |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 tales | amod |
| 12 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 told | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smoothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smooth | past | the grandmother | window's hair | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the grandmother not said here | some more tales | window | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tale=Topic |
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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