Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 147
Then the woman clapped her hands, which frightened him still more.
Who acts: woman · What happens: clap, frighten · To what, where: hands
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 clapped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clapped | nsubj |
| 4 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 frightened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 frightened | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 frightened | nsubj |
| 9 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 clapped | parataxis |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 frightened | obj |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 more | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 frightened | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 clapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clap | past | the woman | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | frighten | past | woman's hands | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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