Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 32
Here I come!" shouted Jack the Dullard, and he sang till his voice echoed far and wide.
Who acts: I, Jack, voice · What happens: be, shout, sing, echo · To what, where: Jack
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Jack, voice), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 shouted | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 6 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 shouted | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dullard | det |
| 9 | Dullard | Dullard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Jack | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sang | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sang | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sang | nsubj |
| 13 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shouted | conj |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 echoed | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 voice | nmod:poss |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 echoed | nsubj |
| 17 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sang | advcl |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 echoed | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wide | cc |
| 20 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 far | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express in a quote | past | Jack | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express in a quote | past | Jack | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | echo in a quote | past | Jack's voice | far property | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/28/32/