Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 140
Father-Stork was making a speech to his family, and his family was glancing down at the two young men in the kitchen garden.
Who acts: Father, family · What happens: make, glance down · To what, where: speech
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, family), 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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 making | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Stork | punct |
| 3 | Stork | Stork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Father | conj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 making | aux |
| 5 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 speech | det |
| 7 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 making | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 family | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 family | nmod:poss |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 speech | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glancing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 glancing | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 family | nmod:poss |
| 14 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 glancing | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 glancing | aux |
| 16 | glancing | glance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 making | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 glancing | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 men | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 men | det |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 men | nummod |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 men | amod |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 glancing | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 garden | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 garden | det |
| 25 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 garden | compound |
| 26 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 men | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · progressive | Father and Stork | a speech | to stork's family | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Product | |||
| 2 | glance down | past · progressive | stork's family | at the two young men in the kitchen garden; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at man=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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