Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 35
Her conduct gave me such confidence in her, that from the crack where I sat I called out 'squeak.'
Who acts: conduct, I, owl · What happens: give, sit, call out, conduct · To what, where: such confidence, me, squeak
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, 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 (conduct, I, owl), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 2 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 confidence | amod |
| 6 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crack | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 crack | nsubj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 crack | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crack | det |
| 13 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 sat | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sat | nsubj |
| 16 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 crack | advcl |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 called | nsubj |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 sat | ccomp |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 called | compound:prt |
| 20 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 16 sat | case |
| 21 | squeak | squeak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sat | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | owl's conduct | such confidence | me | in owl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient confidence=Theme | ||
| 2 | sit | past | I | squeak | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | participle | I | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | conduct | owl | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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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