Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 6
Oh!" screamed the old woman the same moment; for her own daughter, who held her back, had bitten her in the ear.
Who acts: own daughter · What happens: scream, hold, bite · To what, where: old woman, back, woman, ear
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 (own daughter), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 screamed | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 4 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 screamed | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 moment | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 moment | amod |
| 10 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 screamed | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 daughter | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 daughter | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 daughter | amod |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 screamed | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 held | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 held | nsubj |
| 18 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 daughter | parataxis |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 back | nmod:poss |
| 20 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 held | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bitten | punct |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 bitten | aux |
| 23 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 held | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 bitten | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 ear | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ear | det |
| 27 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bitten | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express in a quote | past | the old woman | moment | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hold in a quote | past | woman's own daughter | woman's back | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bite in a quote | past · perfect | woman's own daughter not said here | woman | the ear | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient in ear=Location |
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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