Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 99
He woke, and turned his head round, it was not little Kay!
Who acts: Kay, head · What happens: wake, turn, not be · To what, where: head, little Kay
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 (Kay, head), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 woke | nsubj |
| 2 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 turned | cc |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 woke | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obj |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Kay | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 Kay | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Kay | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 Kay | advmod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Kay | amod |
| 14 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 woke | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | Kay | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | Kay not said here | Kay's head | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 3 | not is a | past | head | little Kay | 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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