Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 14
So he looked on, and when all the people applauded and clapped their hands, he shouted "hurrah."
Who acts: Knud, people · What happens: look on, applaud, clap, shout · To what, where: hands, hurrah
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knud, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 applauded | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 applauded | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 applauded | advmod |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 people | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 applauded | nsubj |
| 11 | applauded | applaud | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 clapped | cc |
| 13 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 applauded | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 clapped | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shouted | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shouted | nsubj |
| 18 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 hurrah | punct |
| 20 | hurrah | hurrah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shouted | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 hurrah | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 hurrah | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | past | Knud | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | applaud | past | all people | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | clap | past | all people not said here | people's hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | past | Knud | hurrah | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic |
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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