Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 107
"Tweet, tweet," sighed he, "what a dreadful snowstorm!" and then he became silent.
Who acts: Tweet, screamer · What happens: sigh, snowstorm, become · To what, where: screamer
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 (Tweet, 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 | _ | 2 Tweet | punct |
| 2 | Tweet | Tweet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sighed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tweet | punct |
| 4 | tweet | tweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tweet | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tweet | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sighed | punct |
| 7 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sighed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 snowstorm | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 snowstorm | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 snowstorm | nsubj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 snowstorm | det |
| 13 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 snowstorm | amod |
| 14 | snowstorm | snowstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sighed | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 snowstorm | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 snowstorm | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 became | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 became | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 became | nsubj |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sighed | conj |
| 21 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 became | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | Tweet and tweet | screamer | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | snowstorm in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | become | past | screamer | then | silent property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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