Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 87
"And here is one, and there is another!" they all exclaimed; for there were crosses on all the doors in every direction.
Who acts: one, doors · What happens: be, exclaim · To what, where: crosses, doors · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, doors), 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 | _ | 3 here | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 here | cc |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 here | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 here | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 is | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 here | cop |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 here | fixed |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 exclaimed | advmod |
| 15 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 crosses | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 were | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 were | expl |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 crosses | cop |
| 20 | crosses | cross | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 exclaimed | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 doors | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 doors | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 doors | det |
| 24 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 crosses | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 direction | case |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 direction | det |
| 27 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 doors | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | one | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | doors = door | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | crosses | all doors in every direction | tree rules |
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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