Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 44
They are coming! they are coming!" he cried.
Who acts: wisps, Two · What happens: come, cry
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 (wisps, Two), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 coming | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 coming | aux |
| 3 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 coming | advcl |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 coming | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 coming | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 coming | aux |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 coming | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 coming | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 coming | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · progressive | wisps = wisp | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present · progressive | wisps = wisp | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Two | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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