Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 12
It was dreadful to hear all that, for the preacher spoke from his heart, and all the people in the church were terrified.
Who acts: It, preacher, people · What happens: be, hear, speak · To what, where: that, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, preacher, people), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dreadful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dreadful | cop |
| 3 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hear | mark |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dreadful | xcomp |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 that | det:predet |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 hear | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spoke | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 spoke | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 preacher | det |
| 11 | preacher | preacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spoke | nsubj |
| 12 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dreadful | parataxis |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spoke | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 terrified | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 terrified | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 people | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 people | det |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 terrified | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 church | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 church | det |
| 23 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 people | nmod |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 terrified | cop |
| 25 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dreadful | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dreadful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | dreadful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | that | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the preacher | preacher's heart | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | all people in the church | terrified property | 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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