Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 38
Eccellenza, miserabili!" they exclaimed, stretching forth their diseased limbs.
Who acts: Eccellenza · What happens: exclaim, stretch, disease · To what, where: diseased limbs
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eccellenza), 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 | Eccellenza | Eccellenza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 miserabili | punct |
| 3 | miserabili | miserabili | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Eccellenza | appos |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Eccellenza | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Eccellenza | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stretching | punct |
| 9 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 exclaimed | advcl |
| 10 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 9 stretching | advmod |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | diseased | disease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 limbs | amod |
| 13 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stretching | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | Eccellenza | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stretch in a quote | gerund | Eccellenza not said here | rags's diseased limbs | forth property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent limb=Patient | |||
| 3 | disease in a quote | participle | tree rules |
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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