Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 154
"My sweet child, my golden treasure!" cried the mother, and she wept; but the Fire-drum sang, not out loud, but inwardly.
Who acts: sweet child, child, Fire drum, my · What happens: cry, weep, sing, treasure · To what, where: mother
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweet child, child, Fire drum, my), 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 | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 child | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 child | amod |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 treasure | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 treasure | amod |
| 8 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 child | appos |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 treasure | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 treasure | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mother | det |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wept | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wept | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wept | nsubj |
| 17 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 sang | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 sang | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 drum | det |
| 21 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 drum | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Fire | punct |
| 23 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sang | nsubj |
| 24 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 loud | punct |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 loud | advmod |
| 27 | out | out | ADV | _ | 28 loud | advmod |
| 28 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 24 sang | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 inwardly | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 inwardly | cc |
| 31 | inwardly | inwardly | ADV | _ | 11 cried | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | My sweet child | the mother | inwardly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic | |||
| 2 | weep | past | child | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | the Fire drum | loud property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | treasure in a quote | my | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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