Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 14
"Yes, you have; and yet the people ran about and fired off guns, to usher in the new year," said a little shivering sparrow. "
Who acts: you, people, little shivering sparrow · What happens: have, run about, fire off, usher, say · To what, where: fired guns · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people, little shivering sparrow), 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 | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 have | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ran | cc |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 ran | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | parataxis |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 guns | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 guns | cc |
| 14 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 guns | amod |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 fired | compound:prt |
| 16 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ran | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 usher | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 usher | mark |
| 19 | usher | usher | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ran | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 year | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 year | det |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 year | amod |
| 23 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 usher | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 sparrow | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 sparrow | amod |
| 29 | shivering | shivering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sparrow | compound |
| 30 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run about in a quote | past | the people | fired guns | yet | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | fire off in a quote | participle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | usher in a quote | to-infinitive | the people not said here | year | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | a little shivering sparrow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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