Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 85
And she always smiled so that he thought he did not know enough yet, and she looked round the vast expanse as she flew higher and higher with him upon a black cloud, while the storm blew and howled as if it were singing old songs.
Who acts: queen, fur, storm · What happens: smile, think, not know, look, fly, blow · To what, where: enough, black cloud, old songs · 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 (queen, fur, storm), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 smiled | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 smiled | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 smiled | advmod |
| 4 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 8 thought | mark |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 so | fixed |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smiled | advcl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 know | advmod |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 know | obj |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 know | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looked | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smiled | conj |
| 19 | round | round | ADP | _ | 22 expanse | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 expanse | det |
| 21 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 expanse | amod |
| 22 | expanse | expanse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 flew | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 flew | nsubj |
| 25 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 looked | advcl |
| 26 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 flew | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 higher | cc |
| 28 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 higher | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 flew | obl |
| 31 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 cloud | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 cloud | det |
| 33 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 cloud | amod |
| 34 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flew | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 blew | punct |
| 36 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 39 blew | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 storm | det |
| 38 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 blew | nsubj |
| 39 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 flew | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 howled | cc |
| 41 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 blew | conj |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 46 singing | mark |
| 43 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 46 singing | mark |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 singing | nsubj |
| 45 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 singing | aux |
| 46 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 howled | advcl |
| 47 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 songs | amod |
| 48 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 singing | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | queen | always property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | fur | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | fur | enough | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | look | past | queen | round the vast expanse | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round expanse=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fly | past | queen | a black cloud | with fur; high property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent upon cloud=Location | |||
| 6 | blow | past | the storm | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | howl | past | the storm not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | storm | old songs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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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