Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 6
She listened to us attentively, seized the pen, paused, and begged us to repeat the direction slowly.
Who acts: dog · What happens: listen, seize, pause, beg, repeat · To what, where: us, pen, direction
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 listened | nsubj |
| 2 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 us | case |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 listened | obl |
| 5 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 2 listened | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seized | punct |
| 7 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 listened | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pen | det |
| 9 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seized | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 paused | punct |
| 11 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seized | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 begged | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 begged | cc |
| 14 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 paused | conj |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 begged | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 repeat | mark |
| 17 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 begged | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 direction | det |
| 19 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 repeat | obj |
| 20 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 17 repeat | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | dog | us | attentively property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to we=Theme | |||
| 2 | seize | past | the pen | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pause | past | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | us | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | repeat not said to happen | to-infinitive | the direction | slowly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Eventuality |
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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