Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 124
Stop! carry me to consecrated earth," sounded in her ears, in strange, hollow tones.
Who acts: you · What happens: stop, carry, consecrate, sound · To what, where: me, consecrated earth, ears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stop | punct |
| 3 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Stop | xcomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 carry | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 6 | consecrated | consecrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 earth | amod |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sounded | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sounded | punct |
| 10 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stop | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ears | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ears | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sounded | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tones | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tones | case |
| 16 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tones | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 strange | punct |
| 18 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tones | amod |
| 19 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sounded | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | carry | infinitive | you not said here | me | consecrated earth | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to earth=Destination | |||
| 3 | consecrate | participle | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | sound in a quote | past | fear's ears | in strange hollow tones | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
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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