Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 3
Nobody looked at it, except the old Ass which drew the milk-maid's cart.
Who acts: Nobody, old Ass · What happens: look, draw · To what, where: cart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nobody, old Ass), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ass | punct |
| 6 | except | except | ADP | _ | 9 Ass | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Ass | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Ass | amod |
| 9 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 drew | nsubj |
| 11 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Ass | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maid | det |
| 13 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maid | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 milk | punct |
| 15 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 maid | case |
| 17 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Nobody | except the old Ass; at garden | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | the old Ass | the milk maid's cart | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme |
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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