Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 183
I cried out as loudly as I could, but no one heard me; I was too far off from the people.
Who acts: I, one · What happens: cry out, hear, be · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 cried | compound:prt |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 loudly | advmod |
| 5 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 2 cried | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 could | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 could | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 loudly | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 heard | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | parataxis |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 off | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 off | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 off | cop |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 far | advmod |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 off | advmod |
| 20 | off | off | ADV | _ | 2 cried | parataxis |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 people | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 off | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | I | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | no one | me | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | I | from the people; far, off property | 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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