Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 37
Just then they heard the people outside shouting, "Hurrah!" and, looking out, they saw the princess passing by; and she was really so beautiful that everybody forgot her wickedness, and shouted "Hurrah!"
Who acts: women, people, princess, everybody · What happens: hear, shout, look out, see, pass by, be · To what, where: people, Hurrah, princess, wickedness
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, people, princess, everybody), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 heard | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 8 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 heard | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hurrah | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hurrah | punct |
| 11 | Hurrah | Hurrah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 shouting | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hurrah | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hurrah | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looking | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looking | punct |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 shouting | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 looking | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 looking | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 princess | det |
| 22 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obj |
| 23 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 princess | acl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 passing | fixed |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 beautiful | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 beautiful | cc |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 beautiful | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 beautiful | cop |
| 29 | really | really | ADV | _ | 31 beautiful | advmod |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 beautiful | advmod |
| 31 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 forgot | mark |
| 33 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 34 forgot | nsubj |
| 34 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 beautiful | advcl |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 wickedness | nmod:poss |
| 36 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 forgot | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 shouted | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 shouted | cc |
| 39 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 Hurrah | punct |
| 41 | Hurrah | Hurrah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 shouted | obj |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 41 Hurrah | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 Hurrah | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | women = woman | the people | then | outside property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | shout speech: express | gerund | the people not said here | Hurrah | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic | ||||
| 3 | look out | gerund | the people not said here | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | past | women = woman | the princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | pass by | gerund | the princess not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | past | princess | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | forget | past | everybody | princess's wickedness | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | shout speech: express | past | women = woman not said here | Hurrah | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic |
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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