Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 106
"You screamer!" said the lady, throwing a white handkerchief over the cage.
Who acts: You, screamer · What happens: screamer, say, throw · To what, where: white handkerchief, cage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, screamer), 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 | _ | 3 screamer | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 screamer | nsubj |
| 3 | screamer | screamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 screamer | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 screamer | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 throwing | punct |
| 10 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 handkerchief | det |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 handkerchief | amod |
| 13 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 throwing | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 cage | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cage | det |
| 16 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 throwing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | screamer in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | screamer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | throw | gerund | screamer not said here | a white handkerchief | the cage | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme over cage=Destination |
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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