Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 26
"I don't understand your outlandish talk," he cried at last, angrily turning his back upon them.
Who acts: bridge, your · What happens: not understand, cry, turn, talk · To what, where: outlandish talk, last, back · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridge, your), 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 | _ | 5 understand | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 understand | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 understand | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 understand | advmod |
| 5 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 talk | nmod:poss |
| 7 | outlandish | outlandish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 talk | amod |
| 8 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 understand | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 understand | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turning | punct |
| 16 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 17 turning | advmod |
| 17 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 cried | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 back | nmod:poss |
| 19 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turning | obj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 turning | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand in a quote | present · do-support | bridge | your outlandish talk | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | bridge | last | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | bridge not said here | bridge's back | upon lamps = lamp; angrily property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme | |||
| 4 | talk in a quote | your | nom talk «communication intransitive»: 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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