Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 95
What a whizzing and popping they made as they went off!
Who acts: whizzing, sorts · What happens: pop, make, go off
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whizzing, sorts), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 whizzing | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 whizzing | det |
| 3 | whizzing | whizzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 popping | cc |
| 5 | popping | pop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 whizzing | conj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 went | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | ccomp |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 went | compound:prt |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pop | gerund | what whizzing not said here | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | make | past | what whizzing | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go off | past | sorts = sort | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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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