Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 84
He waited quietly for several hours, and then, after looking carefully around him, hastened away from the moor as fast as he could.
Who acts: tongue · What happens: wait, look, hasten away · To what, where: moor
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 (tongue), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 2 waited | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 hours | case |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hours | amod |
| 6 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 waited | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hastened | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hastened | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 hastened | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 then | punct |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 looking | mark |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 hastened | advcl |
| 13 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 12 looking | advmod |
| 14 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looking | punct |
| 17 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 waited | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 hastened | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 moor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 moor | det |
| 21 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hastened | obl |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 fast | advmod |
| 23 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 hastened | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 could | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 could | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fast | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | tongue | hour | quietly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | around tongue; carefully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hasten away | participle | tongue not said here | the moor | then | away, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from moor=Trajectory |
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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