Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 76
She spoke out so clearly and plainly, and she had come in so suddenly, that no one had time to stop her or to say a word while she was speaking.
Who acts: rest, one · What happens: speak out, come in, have, stop, say, speak · To what, where: rest, word · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rest, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 spoke | compound:prt |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 clearly | advmod |
| 5 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 2 spoke | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 plainly | cc |
| 7 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 5 clearly | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 come | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 spoke | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 suddenly | advmod |
| 15 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 had | mark |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 stop | mark |
| 23 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 time | acl |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stop | obj |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 say | cc |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 say | mark |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 stop | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 word | det |
| 29 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 say | obj |
| 30 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 33 speaking | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 speaking | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 speaking | aux |
| 33 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 say | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak out speech: other | past | rest | clearly property | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come in | past · perfect | rest | suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | no one | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stop | to-infinitive | no one not said here | rest | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality she=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | no one not said here | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | rest | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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