Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 49
"Kay, what are you doing?" cried the little girl; and then, when he saw how frightened she was, he tore off another rose, and jumped through his own window away from little Gerda.
Who acts: Kay, little girl, glass, girl · What happens: do, cry, see, frighten, be, tore off · To what, where: rose, own 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 (Kay, little girl, glass, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 doing | punct |
| 2 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 doing | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 doing | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 doing | obj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 doing | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 doing | nsubj |
| 7 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cried | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 doing | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 doing | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 girl | amod |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 saw | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 saw | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | parataxis |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 frightened | advmod |
| 22 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 saw | xcomp |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 was | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 frightened | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tore | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 tore | nsubj |
| 27 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | parataxis |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 tore | compound:prt |
| 29 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 rose | det |
| 30 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tore | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 jumped | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 jumped | cc |
| 33 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 34 | through | through | ADP | _ | 37 window | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 window | nmod:poss |
| 36 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 window | amod |
| 37 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 jumped | obl |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 jumped | compound:prt |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 Gerda | case |
| 40 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Gerda | amod |
| 41 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 jumped | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · progressive | Kay | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the little girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | glass | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | frighten | participle | glass not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | past | girl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | tore off | past | glass | another rose | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | jump away | past | the little girl not said here | glass's own window | from little Gerda | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=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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