Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 40
The weathercock flew to the opposite house, where he perched, looking the picture of malice--so the neighbors said.
Who acts: weathercock, man, neighbors · What happens: fly, perch, look, say · To what, where: picture · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weathercock, man, neighbors), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 weathercock | det |
| 2 | weathercock | weathercock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 perched | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 perched | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 perched | nsubj |
| 11 | perched | perch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looking | punct |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 perched | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 picture | det |
| 15 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looking | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 malice | case |
| 17 | malice | malice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 picture | nmod |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 said | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 neighbors | det |
| 21 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the weathercock | to the opposite house result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result | ||||
| 2 | perch | past | man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | man not said here | the picture of malice | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme picture=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the neighbors | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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