Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 39

One day Kay and Gerda sat looking at a book full of pictures of animals and birds, and then just as the clock in the church tower struck twelve, Kay said, "Oh, something has struck my heart!" and soon after, "There is something in my eye."

Who acts: Kay, clock · What happens: sit, look, strike, say, be · To what, where: twelve, something, eye · 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 (Kay, clock), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl:unmarked
3	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Gerda	cc
5	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Kay	conj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sat	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 book	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 book	det
10	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looking	obl
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 book	amod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 pictures	case
13	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 full	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 animals	case
15	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pictures	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 birds	cc
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 animals	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 struck	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 struck	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 struck	advmod
21	just	just	ADV	_	24 clock	advmod
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 clock	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 clock	det
24	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 struck	nsubj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 tower	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tower	det
27	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tower	compound
28	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 clock	nmod
29	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
30	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 struck	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
32	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 said	nsubj
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 struck	punct
36	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	40 struck	discourse
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Oh	punct
38	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	40 struck	nsubj:pass
39	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 struck	aux
40	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 said	conj
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 heart	nmod:poss
42	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 struck	obj
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	40 struck	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 struck	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 something	cc
46	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	52 something	advmod
47	after	after	SCONJ	_	51 is	mark
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 after	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 is	punct
50	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	51 is	expl
51	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 something	cop
52	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	40 struck	conj
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 eye	case
54	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 eye	nmod:poss
55	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 something	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Kay and Gerda			day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund	Kay and Gerda not said here				at a book	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at book=Theme
3	strike	past	the clock in the church tower	twelve		then		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient
4	say speech: express	past	Kay					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	strike in a quote	present · perfect · passive		something				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient heart=Result
6	is a in a quote	present		something	my eye		soon property	tree rules

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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