Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 40
Then Gerda repeated her story over again, while the wood-pigeons in the cage over her cooed, and the other pigeons slept.
Who acts: Gerda, other pigeons · What happens: repeat, coo, sleep · To what, where: story
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 (Gerda, other pigeons), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 repeated | advmod |
| 2 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 repeated | nsubj |
| 3 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 story | nmod:poss |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 repeated | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 again | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 repeated | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pigeons | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 pigeons | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pigeons | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pigeons | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 wood | punct |
| 13 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 repeated | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cage | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cage | det |
| 16 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pigeons | nmod |
| 17 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 19 cooed | mark |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cooed | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cooed | coo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 repeated | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 slept | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 slept | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pigeons | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pigeons | amod |
| 24 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 slept | nsubj |
| 25 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 repeated | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | Gerda | Gerda's story | then; again | the wood pigeons in the cage obl | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | coo | participle | Gerda not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sleep | past | the other pigeons | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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