Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 148
Then came the sparrows again out of the town, and asked, "Who is that old man?"
What happens: come, ask, be · To what, where: sparrows, town, old man · 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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sparrows | det |
| 4 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
| 15 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 man | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 man | cop |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 man | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the sparrows | the town | then; again | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sparrow=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that old man | tree rules |
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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