Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 186
"'O-h, o-h,' she sighed; for people can sigh like the moaning of the wind among the reeds and rushes. '
Who acts: h, people · What happens: sigh
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 (h, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 sighed | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 h | punct |
| 3 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 h | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 O | punct |
| 5 | h | H | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sighed | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 h | punct |
| 7 | o | o | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 h | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 h | punct |
| 9 | h | H | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 h | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sighed | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sighed | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sighed | nsubj |
| 13 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 sigh | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 sigh | mark |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sigh | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 sigh | aux |
| 18 | sigh | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sighed | conj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 moaning | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 moaning | det |
| 21 | moaning | moaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sigh | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 wind | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wind | det |
| 24 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 moaning | nmod |
| 25 | among | among | ADP | _ | 27 reeds | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 reeds | det |
| 27 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sigh | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 rushes | cc |
| 29 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 reeds | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sighed | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh in a quote | past | h | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sigh in a quote | can | people | like the moaning of the wind; among the reeds and rushes | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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