Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 30
"Oh, o--h!" cried the young storks.
Who acts: h · What happens: cry · To what, where: young storks
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (h), 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 | _ | 6 h | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 h | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | o | o | INTJ | _ | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | h | H | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 h | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 h | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 storks | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 storks | amod |
| 12 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cried | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | h | the young storks | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stork=Topic |
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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