Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 23
She nodded to the grandmother, and the old woman nodded to her, and pointed to a letter which had come from a long way off.
Who acts: daughter, old woman, letter · What happens: nod, point, come · To what, where: grandmother, daughter, letter, long way
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, old woman, letter), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 nodded | nsubj |
| 2 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 grandmother | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grandmother | det |
| 5 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nodded | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nodded | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 nodded | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nodded | nsubj |
| 11 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 nodded | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 nodded | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pointed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pointed | cc |
| 16 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 nodded | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 letter | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 letter | det |
| 19 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pointed | obl |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 come | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 letter | acl:relcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 way | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 way | det |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 way | amod |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | obl |
| 27 | off | off | ADV | _ | 26 way | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | daughter | the grandmother | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to grandmother=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | nod | past | the old woman | daughter | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | point | participle | a letter | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to letter=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | come | past · perfect | a letter | a long way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from way=Initial_Location |
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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