Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 2
"It is gold! it is gold!" cried they, rushing forward, and seizing the horses.
Who acts: coach, gold · What happens: be, cry, rush, seize · To what, where: gold, horses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coach, gold), 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 | _ | 4 gold | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gold | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gold | cop |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 gold | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gold | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gold | cop |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gold | appos |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 gold | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 gold | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rushing | punct |
| 14 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cried | advcl |
| 15 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 14 rushing | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seizing | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seizing | cc |
| 18 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cried | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 horses | det |
| 20 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 seizing | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | coach | gold | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | coach | gold | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | gold | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rush | gerund | gold not said here | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seize | gerund | gold not said here | the horses | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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