Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 125
The sound did not come from frogs or ravens; she saw no sign of such creatures. "
Who acts: sound · What happens: not come, see, sign · To what, where: sign, such creatures
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 (sound), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 frogs | case |
| 7 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 come | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 ravens | cc |
| 9 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 frogs | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 sign | det |
| 14 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 creatures | case |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 creatures | amod |
| 17 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sign | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | past · do-support | the sound | from frogs or ravens | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from frog=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | sound | no sign of such creatures | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sign | such creatures | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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