Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 42
She uttered a terrible scream when she caught sight of me so near to her; like many women, she was very much afraid of mice.
Who acts: dryad · What happens: utter, catch, be, sight · To what, where: terrible scream, sight, rest, me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dryad), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 uttered | nsubj |
| 2 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 scream | det |
| 4 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 scream | amod |
| 5 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 uttered | obj |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 caught | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 caught | nsubj |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 uttered | advcl |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sight | nmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 near | advmod |
| 13 | near | near | ADV | _ | 8 caught | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 caught | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 afraid | punct |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 women | case |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 women | amod |
| 19 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 afraid | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 women | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 afraid | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 afraid | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 afraid | advmod |
| 25 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 uttered | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 mice | case |
| 27 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 afraid | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | dryad | a terrible scream | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scream=Topic | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | dryad | sight of me | rest | near property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||
| 3 | is | past | dryad | like many women; of mice; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sight | me | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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