Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 65

"Baa!" there he stood like a baa-lamb.

Who acts: Baa · What happens: stand

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 (Baa), 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	_	2 Baa	punct
2	Baa	baa	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Baa	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Baa	punct
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 stood	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stood	nsubj
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	like	like	ADP	_	12 lamb	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lamb	det
10	baa	baa	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lamb	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 baa	punct
12	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Baa			there		like a baa lamb	vn assuming_position-50 «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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