Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 15
The reindeer told his own story first, and then little Gerda's, and the Finlander twinkled with her clever eyes, but she said nothing. "
Who acts: reindeer, Finlander, woman · What happens: tell, twinkle, say · To what, where: own story, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reindeer, Finlander, woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 reindeer | det |
| 2 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 story | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 story | amod |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 told | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Gerda | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Gerda | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 Gerda | advmod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Gerda | amod |
| 12 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | parataxis |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Gerda | case |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 twinkled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 twinkled | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Finlander | det |
| 17 | Finlander | Finlander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 twinkled | nsubj |
| 18 | twinkled | twinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | parataxis |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 eyes | amod |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 twinkled | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 twinkled | conj |
| 27 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 said | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the reindeer | reindeer's own story | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 2 | twinkle | past | the Finlander | with woman's clever eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | woman | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
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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