Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 44
"O summer gauk!" cried some children rejoicingly; "yonder stands one--how beautiful, how beautiful!
Who acts: summer gauk · What happens: cry, stand · To what, where: children, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (summer gauk), 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 gauk | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 gauk | discourse |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gauk | compound |
| 4 | gauk | gauk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 gauk | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gauk | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 children | det |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | rejoicingly | rejoicingly | ADV | _ | 7 cried | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 stands | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 stands | punct |
| 13 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 14 stands | advmod |
| 14 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | conj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 stands | obj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 beautiful | punct |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stands | dep |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beautiful | punct |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 beautiful | conj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | summer gauk | some children | rejoicingly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | |||
| 2 | stand in a quote | present | summer gauk not said here | one | yonder property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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