Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 80
This is what she thought of, and often spoke of in a low voice to herself.
Who acts: This, squirrel · What happens: be, think, speak · To what, where: squirrel, low voice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, squirrel), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 what | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 thought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoke | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spoke | cc |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 spoke | advmod |
| 10 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 spoke | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spoke | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 herself | case |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 spoke | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | squirrel | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | squirrel | a low voice | often property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to herself=Co-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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