Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 52
His boots creaked loudly as he walked, and yet he was not at all uneasy."
Who acts: boots, sweetheart · What happens: creak, walk, not be · To what, where: all
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boots, sweetheart), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 boots | nmod:poss |
| 2 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 creaked | nsubj |
| 3 | creaked | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 3 creaked | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 walked | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 walked | nsubj |
| 7 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 creaked | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 uneasy | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 uneasy | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 16 uneasy | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 uneasy | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 uneasy | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 uneasy | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 uneasy | obl |
| 16 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 creaked | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 creaked | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 creaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creak | past | sweetheart's boots | loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | sweetheart | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | sweetheart | all | yet | uneasy 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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