Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 67
The crowd begins to laugh and whistle and hiss--the very father of the man whistles with the rest.
Who acts: crowd, father · What happens: begin, laugh, whistle, hiss
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowd, father), 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 crowd | det |
| 2 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begins | nsubj |
| 3 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 laugh | mark |
| 5 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begins | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 whistle | cc |
| 7 | whistle | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 laugh | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hiss | cc |
| 9 | hiss | hiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 laugh | conj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 whistles | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 father | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 father | advmod |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 whistles | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 father | nmod |
| 17 | whistles | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 begins | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 rest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rest | det |
| 20 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 whistles | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begins | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | the crowd | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | laugh | to-infinitive | the crowd not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | whistle | infinitive | the crowd not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hiss | infinitive | the crowd not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | whistle | present | the father of the man | with the rest | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rest=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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