Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 69
"Stop!" cried the old goblin, "is that the only house-keeping they can perform?
Who acts: old goblin, only house, dances · What happens: stop, cry, keep, perform · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old goblin, only house, dances), 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 Stop | punct |
| 2 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 goblin | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 goblin | amod |
| 8 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 keeping | aux |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 keeping | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 14 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 house | amod |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keeping | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 house | punct |
| 17 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 perform | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 perform | aux |
| 20 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 keeping | xcomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the old goblin | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | present · progressive | the only house | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | perform in a quote | can | dances = dance | vn performance-26.7 «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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