Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 24
"Mai--!" they said, as they were bumped upon the pavement. "
Who acts: Mai · What happens: say, bump · To what, where: chips · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mai), 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 | _ | 2 Mai | punct |
| 2 | Mai | Mai | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mai | punct |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mai | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mai | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bumped | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 bumped | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bumped | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bumped | aux:pass |
| 12 | bumped | bump | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 pavement | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pavement | det |
| 15 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bumped | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mai | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bump | past · passive | chips = chip | upon the pavement | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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