Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 132
He lifted it with a trembling hand, and exclaimed in a voice of agitation, 'Gold! gold!'
Who acts: fire · What happens: lift, tremble, exclaim · To what, where: crucible, voice
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire), 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 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hand | det |
| 6 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 hand | amod |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 exclaimed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 exclaimed | cc |
| 10 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lifted | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 voice | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaimed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 agitation | case |
| 15 | agitation | agitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 voice | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Gold | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Gold | punct |
| 18 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaimed | conj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 gold | punct |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | parataxis |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 gold | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 gold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | fire | crucible | with a trembling hand | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | tremble | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | participle | fire not said here | a voice of agitation | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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