Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 10
Hark, what a buzzing and humming there is!"
Who acts: Hark · What happens: buzzing, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hark), 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 | Hark | Hark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 buzzing | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 buzzing | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 buzzing | det |
| 5 | buzzing | buzzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hark | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 humming | cc |
| 7 | humming | humming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buzzing | conj |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buzzing | Hark | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | be | present | Hark | there | vn exist-47.1 «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.
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