Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 37
What a hail-storm!" she said, as she entered; "I have never been out in such weather as this."
Who acts: hail storm, storm, I · What happens: say, enter, not be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hail storm, storm, I), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 storm | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 storm | det |
| 3 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 storm | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 hail | punct |
| 5 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 storm | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 storm | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 entered | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 entered | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 entered | nsubj |
| 13 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 this | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 this | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 this | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 this | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 this | advmod |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 this | cop |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 been | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 weather | case |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 weather | amod |
| 23 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 been | obl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 this | case |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 entered | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | what hail storm | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | enter in a quote | past | storm | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not is | present · perfect | I | as this | 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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